RationalWiki
RationalWiki | |
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 Main page of RationalWiki. | |
| Type | Wiki |
| Founded | May 22, 2007 |
| Key people | Trent Toulouse (operations manager) |
| Espoused ideology |
Liberalism Anti-communism |
| URL | rationalwiki.org |
RationalWiki is a liberal and anti-communist MediaWiki site. It was created in 2007 to counter Conservapedia, a Christian fundamentalist website, after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned.
The websites functions as a hub for various bourgeois pseudo-intellectuals to promote anti-communist propaganda, even though the main focus of the website is allegedly to combat right-wingers.
Positions
RationalWiki is fiercely anti-communist and subscribes to the narrative upheld by Western intelligence agencies. It claims revolutionary communist figures such as Vladimir Lenin,[1] Joseph Stalin,[2] and Mao Zedong[3] were "dictators" without proper sourcing.
RationalWiki claims that the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 was a "Holodomor" (deliberate genocide) which killed "between 2 and 10 million people",[4] a stance which even most bourgeois academics do not hold. It makes similar claims against Mao, claiming he killed "40 to 70 million people",[3] and Pol Pot, falsely claiming that he sought to reduce Kampuchea's population to 1 million.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Vladimir Lenin". RationalWiki. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Joseph Stalin". RationalWiki. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mao Zedong". RationalWiki. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Holodomor". RationalWiki. Retrieved August 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Pol Pot". RationalWiki. Retrieved August 3, 2025.