The mailing list is open to Abe (172) and to other members of the Red Faction, should they be deemed to exist, or to them as individuals should we take the perspective that there is no organized Marxist-Leninist activity on Wikipedia, rather unlikely, but perhaps a fiction we might adopt for the sake of peace.
Characterization of the list as a whole as libertarian seems a stretch, but certainly some conservative, even reactionary, POV surfaces on Wikipedia. The issue is editors who view Wikipedia as a vehicle for political struggle. I can probably be counted amoung them as I apply the same slogan to Communist totalitarianism that is usually applied to the Holocaust, Never Again... and view accumulations of accurate knowledge available to the people (the working class, in this context) as innoculation against repetitions of past evils as they struggle against oppression.
That said, in relationship to Marxist-Leninism, I are one, or rather was one and have great sympathy with the humanist ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and even Stalin. But fairly representing those ideals and the efforts of Marxist-Leninist governments to realize them is not usually the issue with Abe and his colleagues, but rather Potemkin village like systemic misrepresentations of the state of affairs in North Korea, Belarus, East Germany, etc. which anyone familiar with the facts is going to view as misleading and false.
That is what it comes down to. Is Wikipedia a repository of facts or of propaganda. (or of clever [[spin (politics)]])
Fred
From: "Daniel P.B.Smith" dpbsmith@verizon.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:25:34 -0500 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Liberatarian country
From: "Abe Sokolov" abesokolov@hotmail.com
Since the Wiki mailing list is libertarian country,
I don't like that facile generalization.
-- Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith@world.std.com alternate: dpbsmith@alum.mit.edu
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