Talk:People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

message: The PDPA wasn't a communist party, it was a left-wing nationalist party. From William Blum's Killing Hope:
After the April revolution, the new government under President Noor Mohammed Taraki declared a commitment to Islam within a secular state, and to non-alignment in foreign affairs. It maintained that the coup had not been foreign inspired, that it was not a “Communist takeover”, and that they were not “Communists” but rather nationalists and revolutionaries. (No official or traditional Communist Party had ever existed in Afghanistan.) But because of its radical reform program, its class-struggle and anti-imperialist-type rhetoric, its support of all the usual suspects (Cuba, North Korea, etc.), its signing of a friendship treaty and other cooperative agreements with the Soviet Union, and an increased presence in the country of Soviet civilian and military advisers (though probably less than the US had in Iran at the time), it was labeled “communist” by the world’s media and by its domestic opponents.http://williamblum.org/chapters/killing-hope/afghanistan129.63.183.190 (talk) 13:36, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideology

message: I tried to make some clarification edits throughout the article.  I filled out some of the Kalqi-Parchami split and the events surrounding the day of April 28, 1978 of the Saur Revolution, etc.  Most of my sources came from Neamatollah Nojumi's work, The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan--Mikepope 17:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe you didn't read my edit summaries and what I said. the PDPA were never especially popular in Afghanistan, especially not in rural areas that were generally religiously conservative -- i would think even Russians would acknowledge this based on how bogged down the Red Army got in the country. most Communist states have enacted the kinds of reforms you're talking about, but if they are restored with John Pilger as the sole source and give the article a clear pro-Soviet bias again the article can and will be reverted. J. Parker Stone 21:48, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

text: John Pilger is not a reputable source in your learned opinion, then? Well, where are your sources? Furthermore, resistance to a foreign occupier propping up its client regime has nothing to do with the PDPA's progressive accomplishments (whether popular or not)-- those stand independent of the mujahadeen struggle against the PDPA. Or would you edit out the attempts of Radical Republicans to bring about racial equality during Reconstruction simply because they were "unpopular" amongst most Southerners? Faulty logic, Mr. Stone. --Nicky Scarfo 04:13, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A few edits

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: An Infobox should present a summary of the contents of the article, not invent/present new 'realities' that contradict the article. Now, clearly the section 'Ideology' in the article does not state the PDPA to be Communist/Marxist/Leninist. On the contrary, the section contains an explicit denial of that suggestion by a PDPA leader (in 1978).Having intensive contacts, possibly even some common interests, with a powerful political party in a strong neighboring country (as PDPA had with the Soviet Leninist party) is far from equivalent (and not implying) to agreeing to all ideas of that foreign party, or to adhering to the ideology that foreign party adheres to. (As for ref source Amstutz p.34: it does not say PDPA is Comm./M/L, it only suggests that. See discussion in previous talk section.) --Corriebertus (talk) 17:20, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox (ideology) 

message: If the party is far-left the ideology shouldn't exactly be Afghan-Nationalsm or any right wing nationalism. Either it should say something like Farleft of the PDPA was until 87 of that was when the party switched ideologies, unless the party was seen as nationalist since the beginning. Kommune12 (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Positions 

message: User Soman reverted  my edit  and gave the reason WP:RS. The book cited is written by a historian based on KGB documents. Would you like to explain why you think it's not reliable? See also:
--Jo1971 (talk) 22:41, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taraki and Karmal as Soviet agents