Amazon.com and anti-communism - please help me complain!

[Commlin]

I have done a search through Amazon.com and I have found some really annoying anti-communist reviews of the readers for the book "Lenin: A Biography" by Robert Service (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674008286/qid=1041143900/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/103-8925786-2179055).

The issue is that all the reviews seems to be wrote by people like the one who owns the list "Tyrants, Despots, & Cold Blooded Killers" (from the "Listmania" )

My English is not too well, so your help is needed!

- If you have read the book, please write a review.
- Please use the link "Let us know if any of these lists are inappropriate" (from the same page) to tell your opinions.

[truthaddict11]

you really cant to a thing about it. those kinds of reviews are all over amazon for everything. why does it matter what some idiots on amazon think anyways?

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

They are just opposing political views. Like the people on this forum have.

It's nothing

[Felicia]

I've boughten 3 books on guerrilla warfare form them...... two if the manuels had anti-communist slogans by the writers..... the other was Mao's (which the other books referred to as a good reference)..... the communist manifesto I bought also had an introduction that referred to communism as being perverted! :angry:


oh well.....

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

That is the books themselves.

That is no link to Amazon.

[JohnRedDavis]

A good place to get books on Marxism, labor studies, women's rights, Latin America, etc. is Haymarketbooks.org.

They have a wide selection of socialist buttons, audio tapes of speeches, and an anti-occupation bumper sticker, as well.

It sure beats spending money on Amazon.com!

--John

[WUOrevolt]

truthaddict11 is right

[Commlin]

Quote: from felicia on 4:30 pm on June 23, 2003
I've boughten 3 books on guerrilla warfare form them......


How can your support them? You can buy your books from other on-line stores.

[Commlin]

Quote: from truthaddict11 on 1:51 pm on June 23, 2003
you really cant to a thing about it. those kinds of reviews are all over amazon for everything. why does it matter what some idiots on amazon think anyways?


Your attitude is very passive. Do you think it is better to ignore the things you don’t like? Amazon.com should know that a lot of people do not agree with their point of view. A good way for this is to write as many e-mails as possible. If no one complains, they can say that everything is fine, especially because even those who are insulted by their commentaries buy books from them!

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

Amazon.com don't have an opinion on the books! They just sell them. It's not their problem that buyers post reviews like that.

[BOZG]

It's only after you take a break from this site that you realise there is some number of ridiculous posts.

Reviews of books are merely personal opinions of people, its not up to Amazon to say what opinions people can have. If you want to go and waste your time leaving pro-communist reviews, go ahead and do that but there are far more important things in the world to worry about. If this is the type of thing that worries you, then I would hate to see you having to see the shit the working class goes through on a daily basis.

[truthaddict11]

Quote: from Commlin on 5:59 am on June 24, 2003

Quote: from truthaddict11 on 1:51 pm on June 23, 2003
you really cant to a thing about it. those kinds of reviews are all over amazon for everything. why does it matter what some idiots on amazon think anyways?


Your attitude is very passive. Do you think it is better to ignore the things you don’t like? Amazon.com should know that a lot of people do not agree with their point of view. A good way for this is to write as many e-mails as possible. If no one complains, they can say that everything is fine, especially because even those who are insulted by their commentaries buy books from them!




why should i give a damn about some loser on Amazons review on a book? Its really not going to persuade me to turn my opinions on certain things just because a guy doesnt like the left.
I am sure Amazon doesnt care about the difference between Capitalist or Communist books they sell since either way they turn a profit. Buy from a independent seller instead someone who needs your help not some Multi-Million Dollar online store

[Moskitto]

did you mean this review in particular?

Reviewer: Avid Reader (see more about me) from Franklin, TN USA
The author gives us great amounts of detail information of Lenin's younger and older life. However, the attempt to make him a "great" man (word or deed) was not worthy of the book. What I wanted to discover was WHY such a non-entity, one who rarely was in his own country, would be remembered as a savior despite having imposed the most tyrannical regime that ever existed on hundreds of millions people.

Lenin possessed (like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddamn) the same ruthless, myopic, self-centered outlook as a child as he did as an adult. In other words, he never matured. Only the violence increased as he grew older. Indeed, one is still stunned that millions can be casually ordered to die due to economic status or political views. The author follows Lenin's activities both chronologically and philosophically as he meets, adopts then implements (through force, of course) his version of "Heaven on Earth" (what the Socialists used to call Socialism).

Lenin's brand of class hatred, his campaign against whole groups of people is not surprising in a country where individual rights had never found root. What was expected was the annihilation of whole groups due to their status as "enemy of the state". The first modern totalitarian state was the result and the human costs have been mind-boggling. Vladimir Bukovsky estimates that 50 million have been murdered (starved, tortured, sent to Siberia, shot outright etc) since 1917. Stalin simply raised Lenin's policies to a new level.

Despite its attempts to paint Lenin in a somewhat rosy light (a difficult task), this is still an informative book.

please notice the first section Reviewer: Avid Reader (see more about me) from Franklin, TN USA

this says "Avid Reader" it does not say Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon ltd, Amazon PLC, Amazon Inc. This indicates this is a user review, not a corporate review.

Amazon is unlikely to post their bad review of a book, why? because no one would buy it and amazon looses money, however amazon will post the opinion of someone who has bought the book, it's something called "feedback."