Re: [Marxism] More wiki's

[Shane Brinton <shanebrinton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lance Murdoch wrote:

> I do most of my contributions to the radical wikis because after a
> long time of experience I have given up on Wikipedia.  Look at the
> Khmer Rouge page for an example.  I have been fighting on it since
> 2003 and have gotten nowhere.  To spite me they have made it worse -
> they put a picture of a dozen people the CPK was going to execute - if
> Wikipedia is a "neutral point of view", how come the US Republican (or
> Democratic for that matter) party doesn't have a similar picture?
> It's ridiculous.  I'm not even a fan of the CPK's political line, I
> just think the CPK "atrocities" were overdone in the US media, just
> like the western media talks about how the evil Vietnamese are still
> holding and torturing US soldiers for some reason.  I see the KR
> atrocity, POW/MIA thing as some kind of collective hysteria due to the
> loss in Vietnam. 

Collective hysteria? Well... I guess I'm part of it.  Ask the
Vietnamese soldiers who liberated Cambodia what they saw!

If anything the CPK's ATROCITIES were UNDERDONE in the US. The only
reason the Khmer Rouge survived into the early 90s was US and Chinese
support.

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