Talk:Communism
I don’t think you can actually decide that Frank Zappa and Will Rogers are “Anti-communists” because of a single quotation. Setting them both up in the same category as Ronald Regan and Rush Limbaugh is rather deceptive.
To be honest this article is problematic and should probably be reconsidered. If it must be put up it the headings should be put up as “Quotes in favor of Communism” versus “Quotes against Communism.”
One too many "m"s in "communism" in the "quotes against commmunism" section
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[edit] Questionable quote
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- "Have a red instead."
–Murray Ross
- "Have a red instead."
According to the wikipedia article linked this person was a Canadian educator. The article didn't mention anything about him being involved in politics. Besides that, there is really no way of telling if the quote is for or against communism or has anything to do with it at all. For all we know it might be about wine. Steve Dufour 05:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Problems with recently added Solzhenitsyn quote
1. There is no source identified.
2. The quote is not "notable" as it should be. Quote 1 yields 45 Google results at this moment (07:19 GMT, 7 August 2008). Quote 2 yields 277. Quote 3 yields 153. "History has proven that no kind of people could be more dangerous or more pesterous than the communist." yields 1 (a single) result as a sentence.
Bortz
[edit] Which Adlai Stevenson?
So, which Adlai Stevenson was it who said ""Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal."? The link is to a disambiguation page on wikipedia with links to Adlai Stevenson I, II, III, and IV. I'm assuming it was Adlai Stevenson II, the most well-known of the four (aka the Democratic presidential candidate who lost twice to Eisenhower... odd that he'd be better known that his dad, who was Vice President, but that's how it goes...) but some clarification would be nice. 76.102.162.163 07:47, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Missing quote
It surprises me that this quote by Karl Marx never appears on this page: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win". It's considered one of the powerful pro communism quotes around and yet it's absence from the page almost hints the editors are biased.
- —This unsigned comment is by 80.254.146.140 (talk • contribs) .
- OF COURSE the editors are biased — ALL PEOPLE are biased in some way — the distinctions between improper or proper biases people make or obscure with words are more astute observations to be made, such as biases that exist between those inclined to diligence or laziness, complaint or contributions. There are plainly pro and anti communist biases at work on this page, and on the whole it remains largely neglected. I might try to do some cleanup here within a few weeks, with a bias towards a more well formatted and organized article, rather than the mess it is, if I find the time, but I make no promises. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:19, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- To people who care about it enough to complain: please note that anyone can edit. Do you care enough to look up the source and add the quote into the article? ~ Ningauble 18:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- OF COURSE the editors are biased — ALL PEOPLE are biased in some way — the distinctions between improper or proper biases people make or obscure with words are more astute observations to be made, such as biases that exist between those inclined to diligence or laziness, complaint or contributions. There are plainly pro and anti communist biases at work on this page, and on the whole it remains largely neglected. I might try to do some cleanup here within a few weeks, with a bias towards a more well formatted and organized article, rather than the mess it is, if I find the time, but I make no promises. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:19, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
