[Wikipedia-l] More on marxists.org

[Fred Bauder]

>On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Michael R. Irwin wrote:
>
>> > I have done a good deal more reading on their site, and I find that
>> > virtually none of their material even comes close to NPOV.  It's
>> > filled throughout with standard Marxist jargon -- which is very out of
>> > the mainstream and treated (properly!) by most economists in the same
>> > way that astrology is treated by psychiatrists.
>>
>> Jimbo, you beg the question by ignoring that most economists
>> treat each others views and models (properly in my view) the
>> way most scientists treat astrology.  Why should Marxist
>> economics dogma be held to a higher standard than Keynesian
>> derived models and predictions that do not work well, if at
>> all, prior to NPOV'ing for inclusion in Wikipedia?  8)
>
>I agree. Economics is much less a hard science than astrophysics or astronomy.
>There are quite a number of serious marxist inclined economists out there.
>Include the ones in China, where doctrine is probably fairly strict
>(whereas in
>the west, each one is free to have his own pet theory), and marxist economists
>might come out in the marjority! :)
>
>Wikipedia right now is heavily balanced towards christian conservative,
>capitalist american views. Bringing in a load of marxist crap would be
>refreshing.

The opinion of someone who stands to get shot if they say the wrong thing
is not  worth much.

Fred