[WikiEN-l] Mostly in defence of 172

Fri Jan 17 17:29:05 UTC 2003

Maybe not marxist but at least marxian.

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From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Mostly in defence of 172

> Red Hill Technology wrote:
> > Readers misunderstand political economist's technical expressions
> > (words like those listed above) - which is a good deal worse.
> 
> I think that everywhere you have written "political economist" you
> should have written "Marxist".  The field of political economy is not
> primarily Marxist, and does not use Marxist jargon for the most part.
> 
> > In summary, yes, 172 creates difficulties. But he also makes a very
> > useful contribution to Wikipedia, and is not impossible to work
> > with. He has moderated his initial anti-cooperative behaviour, and
> > (I suspect) will learn to moderate it further as time goes by (not
> > least in consequence of this present controversy).
> 
> Well, I suppose we can wait and see.
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