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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... lives , including those of 55,000 young Americans . The belief , fostered in the Soviet Union , that " socialism " required a ruthless policy of farm collectivization , as well as the control of dissent , brought about the deaths of ...
... live . But they also create a more effective form of control . We are less likely to object if we can feel that we have a " pluralist " society , with two parties instead of one , three branches of government instead of one - man rule ...
... live in a country that , although controlled by wealth and power , has openings and possibilities missing in many other places . The controllers are gam- bling that those openings will pacify us , that we will not really use them to ...
... live on through quieter times , waiting for another opportunity to ignite into action and change the world around us . Dissenters , I am aware , can create their own orthodoxy . So we need a constant reexamination of our thinking ...
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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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