Talk:Nguyễn An Ninh

Ninh, an anarchist?
PurpleCat7 wishes to categorise ‎Ninh as an anarchist, claiming that his anarchism "is detailed in Ho Tai, Hue-Tam (1992). Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution". Ninh may well have been intrigued by anarchist ideas, as he was by many ideas, including populist political Buddhism and, of course, the patriotic-front politics of the Communist Party on whose platform he stood in the 1939 Cochinchina Council Elections. However, none of the supposed sources of anarchist inspiration Tai cites for Ninh--Tolstoy, Tagore, Russell, Rathenau (p. 82)--were anarchists, and Tai himself concedes (p. 77) that Ninh "ignored the issue of state power". If you ignore the issue of state power, how can you possibility be described as an anarchist. Even Ngo Van, who was in awe of Ninh and in later French exile himself became an anarchist/ libertarian socialist did not refer to Ninh as an anarchist. ManfredHugh (talk) 14:19, 26 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I'll stop making this edit if other editors oppose it but I think it's bad to have him considered an anarchist on the "Anarchism in Vietnam" article page but not on his article. Information should have a degree of standardisation on Wikipedia imho. PurpleCat7 (talk) 18:48, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @PurpleCat7: You've been asked before by multiple editors to stop adding categories that are not backed up by cited information in the article itself. (See WP:CATV) That there's information in other articles isn't sufficient reason. Also, if you read the talk page for Anarchism in Vietnam, you'll see that ManfredHugh objects very strongly to that article's categorisation of Ninh as an anarchist. -- Grnrchst (talk) 09:11, 27 April 2023 (UTC)