In addition to the protest against the income tax and the price control imposed by finance minister Antoine Pinay to limit inflation, Poujadism was opposed to industrialization, urbanization, and American-style modernization, which were perceived as a threat to the identity of rural France.
Förutom protesten mot inkomstskatten och priskontroll som infördes genom Antoine Pinay för att begränsa inflationen, var poujadism motsats till industrialisering, urbanisering och modernisering i amerikansk stil, som uppfattades som ett hot mot identiteten på landsbygden i Frankrike.