BBC Poll: World Dislikes Free-Market Capitalism

According to a new BBC World Service poll, the world dislikes free market capitalism.

 LONDON, England — According to a new BBC World Service poll, the world dislikes free market capitalism.

Of those questioned, only 11 percent of those questioned across 27 countries expressed the belief that capitalism was working well.

The poll’s results were released on 20 years to the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Since 1989, it has been a popular notion that after the Eastern Communist block fell, capitalism won.

However, such has not been the case a year after the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

The most negative reviews of capitalism came from France (43 percent).

The most positive reviews came from the United States and Pakistan, where one of five supported the economic system.

The majority of 29,000 people across the 27 nations questioned supported a more even redistribution of wealth.

Turkey has the only majority of respondents that supported less government regulation.

Most of Europe supported the fall of the Soviet Union while those outside the West said the collapse was a negative.