On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:29, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Sheldon,
The argument that "no communist regime has ever claimed to actually *be* communist" is already discussed in the Wikipedia article, and is IMHO opinion an example of exactly the sort of "disinformation" your other wiki is supposedly dedicated to exposing.
Instead of trying to run verbal rings around LittleDan, why not take a moment to consider what he *meant*?
He did. Please don't attack Sheldon.
Sheldon's point is that "communism" is an amorphous concept. Before one can make assertions about the truth of the statement "communism doesn't work", one needs to have a working definition of "communism".
NPOV is more than reporting on what other people say. That's part of it, but not the only part.