[WikiEN-l] Sheldon, LittleDan and communism

[Poor, Edmund W]

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*? 

Which was, apparently:

* putting communist ideas into effect by creating what 
  pro-Marxists might call "building socialism" in a country.

The fact that these "socialist" experiments collapsed 
in the former Soviet bloc would seem to support the POV 
that communism never works in practice.

Anyway, the question is still whether:

* the Wikipedia ought to assert the fact that communism 
  doesn't work, or
* the Wikipedia ought to REPORT that various observers 
  have concluded that communism doesn't work

My understanding of Jimbo's NPOV policy is that we should 
not assert communism's unworkableness as fact but rather 
report that observers say it doesn't work.

Uncle Ed