Maybe not marxist but at least marxian.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Mostly in defence of 172
Red Hill Technology wrote:
Readers misunderstand political economist's technical expressions (words like those listed above) - which is a good deal worse.
I think that everywhere you have written "political economist" you should have written "Marxist". The field of political economy is not primarily Marxist, and does not use Marxist jargon for the most part.
In summary, yes, 172 creates difficulties. But he also makes a very useful contribution to Wikipedia, and is not impossible to work with. He has moderated his initial anti-cooperative behaviour, and (I suspect) will learn to moderate it further as time goes by (not least in consequence of this present controversy).
Well, I suppose we can wait and see. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l