[WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

Tue Apr 29 16:57:20 UTC 2003

Fred Bauder wrote:

>Heh, it is a philosophy of imposition.
>
>Fred
>
What quotes do you have from Marx or Lenin to back that up.  Marx was 
never in power, and Lenin never went half way around the world to impose 
regime change.  Marx, in particular, was probably naïve enough to 
believe that capitalism would collapse of its own accord.

Ec

>>Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>
>>>Fred Bauder wrote:
>>>
>>>>We get all over those who would deny the holocaust; no reason not to
>>>>not adopt the same sort of disrespect and impose the same restraints
>>>>upon those who would deny the sins of Marxism-Leninism.
>>>>
>>>I agree completely, but neither case requires us to deviate from NPOV.
>>>
>>My complaint about Fred's argument in this is that he compared an event
>>with a philosophy.  The sinfulness that may be associated with
>>Marxism-Leninism is not a sin of the philosophy but of those who sought
>>to impose it.
>>