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Originally Posted by tamperpr00f
To me, a freedom loving American, I cannot believe that anyone anywhere would ever vote for a socialist. But apparently Europeans do not seem to share my disdain for socialism.
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Would you care to elaborate on what freedom you mean?
You seem to think that somehow freedom and socialism dont work together, and that the french would give up a lot of freedom if they would vote for the socialists.
As IIIX pointed out mainstream European socialism is not at all against
political freedom, but it wants to maintain/raise some limits on
economical freedom (minimum wages, job protection) to protect the workers from corporations.
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Originally Posted by Wallaroo
It depends on how you define socialism - it varies from country to country. France is a ultra socialistic country (one could say semi-communistic) with a maximum sized government, that both owns car factories and one of the worlds largest civil airline companies.
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Ultra-socialistic? Semi-communistic? You have no idea what you are talking about.
If you are rich you can stay rich in France, so it is not ultra-socialistic.
Companies are owned by their shareholders and not by the laborers, so its not semi-communistic.