[WikiEN-l] Re: The integrity of Wikipedia

Thu Feb 12 19:44:45 UTC 2004

Fred Bauder wrote:

>We don't present all main views or even the predominant view. We censor
>views we feel are incorrect and substitute euphamisms; so East Germany
>becomes a "socialist country", not a totalitarian Marxist-Leninist
>government imposed by fiat on the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany.
>  
>
There's a lot of views you can have though.

One view that people hold is that East Germany is a country in which the 
rights of the proletariat were protected against exploitation by the 
imperialistic expansionism of the United States and its cronies, as 
opposed to West Germany, where exploitation by the owners of the means 
of production was allowed to run rampant.

This isn't a view I hold, but it's one that is held.

Are we going to say that it's wrong?  I don't see how we can make that case.

-Mark