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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Apparently people aren't Zinn fans around here after all :P It's a bummer though--that there's some cynical explanation for every triumph in American history: the Declaration of Independence, abolition, suffrage, the New Deal, the Marshall Plan... that it all came with the explicit approval or at least acquiescence of the capitalist American aristocracy, as a means to their own ends. I had no idea how storied the brutal history of American imperialism was, either. But Zinn definitely communicates that while there's not been "victory" against the wealthy capitalists, if the poor hadn't constantly made a big stink of things, they would be in even worse shape, and there's some small hope in that: as long as unsatisfied workers continue to cause more trouble than their labour is worth in those conditions, quality of life will go up. The accounts of some strikes are definitely repetitive, and past a certain point, the individual stories add little. But I still think this is a must-read history book. Zackarotto fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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