Italy has long had a large Communist Party, and the left may be in power again; but there is no gut antagonism to the freedoms that capitalism encourages. Poland is another country in which individual initiative flourishes – to the point that the apocryphal “Polish plumber” came to epitomize the threats posed by globalization in France.
虽然在方式上略有不同，但意大利确实也是这样。很久以来，意大利的共产主义势力十分强大，左翼党派很可能再次掌权，但却对资本主义鼓励的自由丝毫没有感到抵触。个人热情高涨的另外一个国家是波兰¾甚至连假冒的“波兰管道工”都煞有介事地总结全球化会给法国带来哪些威胁。