Discussion for Plans of a Possible Reorganization of the "Communism" series of pages.

Outline

Outline an idea for a future set of pages. This is speculation for now; let's not change anything major until we come to some agreement.

Catalog of Existing Pages

So far there are a more than a few existing pages on the subject of communism (not counting socialism, which is a whole new can of worms)... To keep from repeating ourselves and taking up unnecessary space, we should try and group up as many sites as we can. If you dont know how a site fits with either Historical Data or Communist Theory, then add it to the bottom of the Other Pages list.

Major Pages

Large pages or pages to be reformatted go here.

Communism; The page where all this began. Currently intended as an ideology page free of historical or political data but rich with the theory of communism. According to designs in Talk:Communism, this could become a good portal to other, more specific pages. Whether is stays that way is up to chance.

Communist states; This is somewhat baffling as it would SEEM to be a good candidate for all the history and politics of communism -- death counts, accomplishments, references to the Soviet Union, et al... -- but it seems to simply be a mess of NPOV infractions combined with a brief history of communist states, communist theory, communism and politics, and economics. I would like this to be a page for the sucessful and failed cases of communist states.

Lesser Pages

Stubs and specific flavors of communism go here. These will likely end up as links.

Theory Links -- Kinds of government ideologies

Marxism; Looks pretty good as-is, but worth looking at, if you haven't already. I haven't looked at all the links here. Some may be relevant. I don't know, and it really isnt all that important at the moment.

Trotskyism

Leninism

Stalinism

Libertarian communism

Juche

Historical Links -- Various communist nations, their governments, their track records, and their leaders.

Soviet Union

Peoples' Republic of China

Cuba

Vietnam

Laos

North Korea

Yugoslavia

Albania

Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin, Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Breznev, Mikhail Gorbachev

Fidel Castro, Che Guevara

Pol Pot

Mao Zedong

Marshal Tito

Other Pages

Miscelaneous links to be decided upon last.

October Revolution

Anti-Communism

Talk

I've used the top of this page to categorize a new set up for multiple Wikipedia pages to hopefully someday replace or unify the current tangled mess of communist entries. If you have any good ideas, I'm they'd probably come in handy since we're trying to help everyone out here. Thanks! -- Oceanhahn 09:51, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)