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Keep Notable, real phenomenon, and judging by Google this is the most common usage of the term. Just a very poor article at present. --
Bth15:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Delete. It is a meaningless word. It is not a phenomenon nor a political concept. At best it is a nice-sounding buzzword. --
Ezeu16:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Rework, acknowledging that the term is generally used by opponents of this position; links to alleged neo-communists, such as
Zhirinovksy, would be a good idea.
Alba17:07, 10 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Delete Wikipedia is not wiktionary. Whether this is the most common usage of the term is highly disputable. Rather its a generic term, used in political discussions to refer to any form of communism or marxist thought that for some reason gets the prefix 'neo'. --
Soman18:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)reply
This claim that it's not the common usage smacks to me of
systemic bias from members of the Anglophone non-Stalinist Left. It's quite clear that the word is commonly and widely used to refer to what's left of the former "Communist" parties in the former USSR and Warsaw Pact. For instance see
[1],
[2],
[3],
[4] all from the first page of hits Google gave me for "neocommunist" and all using it that way. Compare against
one guy with a blog from Canada (don't click that link, it's popup hell) calling himself "neocommunist" in another sense. I'm well aware of the pitfalls of using Google as an ultimate barometer but in this case it seems indicative. --
Bth19:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Delete, per Ezeu. Google shows that it is used by websites like frontpagemag and freerepublic to describe just about anyone to their left, and in an Eastern European context it is just as ill-defined; the politician mentioned as an example in the article,
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is in fact normally called an ultranationalist and a right-wing extremist.
David Sneek20:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Comment: It might also be added that Zhirinovsky just recently declared that he supportes the motion condemning communism in
PACE. --
Soman10:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)reply
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