Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and JusticeHarper Collins, 17 juni 2003 - 368 sidor From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology. Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more than a million people to buy his book A People's History of the United States. He directs his critique here to what he calls "American orthodoxies" -- that set of beliefs guardians of our culture consider sacrosanct: justifications for war, cynicism about human nature and violence, pride in our economic system, certainty of our freedom of speech, romanticization of representative government, confidence in our system of justice. Those orthodoxies, he believes, have a chilling effect on our capacity to think independently and to become active citizens in the long struggle for peace and justice. |
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... centuries ago , that black people are less than human , made possible the Atlantic slave trade , during which perhaps 40 million people died . Beliefs about racial inferiority , whether applied to blacks or Jews or Arabs or Orientals ...
... centuries , from Machiavelli to Kissinger , from Socrates in an Athenian prison to a Catholic priest in a Connecticut jail , making whatever connections I find useful . There is in orthodox thinking a great dependence on experts ...
... century ; the black and white abolitionists of slavery days ; the working people of the railroads , mines , textile mills , steel mills , and auto plants who went on strike , facing the clubs of policemen and the machine guns of ...
... century tells us that the old orthodoxies , the traditional ideologies , the neatly tied bundles of ideas — capitalism , so- cialism , democracy - need to be untied , so that we can play and experi- ment with all the ingredients , add ...
... century before the Revolution , and a major upris- ing in western Massachusetts just before the convening of the Constitu- tional Convention ( Shays ' Rebellion ) were all covered over by the phrase " We the people . " Machiavelli did ...
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FOUR The Use and Abuse of History | 48 |
The American Class System | 147 |
Second Thoughts on the First Amendment | 182 |
The Black Experience | 231 |
ELEVEN The Ultimate Power | 278 |
NOTES | 303 |
INDEX | 333 |
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