bmarjanovich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> 2007-04-04
> Communism alive, well in France
> Towns governed by leaders who fight capitalism with their rules
>
> By Angela Charlton,
> Associated Press
>
> Saint Ouen, France | It took just hours on the Internet for Ronan
> Morvan to find a buyer for his studio apartment on Paris' outskirts.
> Then his Communist town council decided $50,000 was excessive - and
> ordered him to slash the price by more than half.
>
> Shocking? Illegal? Not in France, where the egalitarian flame of the
> French Revolution still flickers in politics and intellectual life.
>
> The field in France's April 22 presidential election includes three
> Trotskyists, a Communist and Jose Bove, a sheep farmer and anti-
> globalization icon calling for an "electoral insurrection" against
> free markets. They won't win, but together they draw millions of votes
> and have caused upsets in the past.
>
> In the 2002 election, hard-left candidates took a combined 19 percent
> of the vote in the first round, weakening the mainstream Socialist
> candidate so badly that the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen was able to
> make the runoff. Le Pen ultimately lost to in***bent Jacques Chirac,
> but his initial triumph was an international embarrassment for France.
Hi,
actually to a lot of people a French Nationalist coming in 2nd was the
best thing out of France since deGaulle.
>
> That boomerang effect is unlikely to repeat itself so dramatically
> this time, but the far-left vote could again tip the balance against
> Socialist candidate Segolene Royal and boost centrist Francois Bayrou,
> who is eating into her sup****t.
>
> Strong hold
>
> While Russians long ago traded Communist Party cards for credit cards
> and Chinese communism is looking increasingly capitalist, France's far
> leftists wield such ideological clout that they logjam efforts to free
> up France's state-driven economy.
>
> They proved it a year ago with mass street protests that blocked a
> mild government effort to reform the hiring-and-firing laws and make
> it cheaper to employ young people.
>
> While mainstream socialists in France, Italy and elsewhere in Europe
> are struggling to update the welfare state for the 21st century, the
> fringes preach a dictator****p of the proletariat, call each other
> "comrade," sing the communist anthem and find a receptive audience in
> a society instinctively suspicious of the free market.
>
> Only 36 percent of French people think capitalism is the best economic
> system for the world, according to a 2005 survey by Globescan, an
> international pollster. In China, that figure soars to 74 percent.
>
> France has long been a spiritual homeland for leftism, from the
> revolutionaries of 1789 to Jean-Paul Sartre and other 20th century
> intellectuals. France's Communist Party was among the biggest in the
> West until the Cold War ended.
>
> Just 8 percent of the work force is unionized, compared with 13
> percent in the United States, yet strikes and mass protests are
> frequent. That's because the French don't have to belong to a union to
> enjoy generous job protections guaranteed by the state, or to march
> against a factory closure.
>
> "There is a deep sentiment, spread out across the nation, of sup****t
> for ideas of equality," said Jean-Marie Pernot, an expert on labor
> movements at Paris' CNRS think tank.
>
> Towns far to the left
>
> Six of the 12 presidential hopefuls are left of the Socialists, and
> among the most moderate is Communist Party leader Marie-Georges
> Buffet. Olivier Besancenot of the Communist Revolutionary League would
> abolish the presidency and stop repaying France's debt. Gerard
> Schivardi of the Workers' Party would nationalize all French banks.
> Six-time candidate Arlette Laguiller of the Workers' Struggle calls
> for world revolution.
>
> Candidate Bove preaches "an electoral insurrection against economic
> liberalism" and "a social, feminist, democratic, anti-racist and
> ecological revolution."
>
> Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading candidate on the right, calls for
> reforming runaway executive pay packages and pledges to free up the
> labor market - a modest plan by many standards but bold for France.
well as we see now Sarkozy won.
so now we have a hungarian jew as the president of France...
> Even Chirac, a conservative, told a biographer he sees economic
> liberalism as a "form of deviance."
>
> But when Socialist Party chief Francois Hollande said last year, "I
> don't like the rich," the remark came back to haunt him. He and his
> live-in partner turn out to be paying a wealth tax applicable only to
> the rich. And the partner and mother of his children happens to be
> candidate Royal.
>
> Only one Socialist has been elected president of France in 50 years,
> but far leftists govern hundreds of towns, and when they get power
> they are not afraid to wield it against capitalism's excesses, as the
> fuss over Morvan's unsold house demonstrates.
>
> The law entitles any municipality to set a price on a house, but the
> town of St. Ouen on Paris' northern fringe is one of only a few that
> exercises that right, and if the owner balks he can't sell it. So
> after two years, Morvan's apartment sits unsold.
>
> Deputy Mayor Michel Bentolila invokes France's motto of "liberte,
> egalite, fraternite," saying: "There is no equality in pu****ng the
> poor into ghettos and becoming a refuge for the rich."
>
> Morvan, who calls himself a member of the "silent right," is fighting
> back. "It is unthinkable that in a modern market economy we should
> have a situation like this," he said.
>
>
>> The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is the revolutionary vanguard
>> of the working class of India. Its aim is socialism and communism
>> through the establishment of the state of dictator****p of the
>> proletariat. In all its activities the Party is guided by the
>> philosophy and principles of Marxism-Leninism which shows to the
>> toiling m***** the correct way to the ending of exploitation of man by
>> man, their complete emancipation. "
>>
>> http://www.mindszenty.org/re****t/1998/feb98/feb98.html
>>
>> http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.4.GIF
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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