Matthew's review
People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
Matthew's review
People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
Matthew's review
rating:
bookshelves:
history,
politics
Oh shit. The facade has been stripped away and now i only see the matrix. Holy shit, i need to run for senate and set people straight. Seriously, it is now frighteningly obvious that a very real system exists to keep the powerful and rich powerful and rich. Not a consciouss system or a small group of people running the show like a cabal, but a vast disorganized and dispersed network of the interests of very rich people. And if you get in the way of that system, the system will develop redundancies to cope with you, ideologies that permit limit, ritualized and/or real violence against the offenders.
It makes it seem pretty hopeless. LIke the tiny rebel army against an empire. Like that fictional rebelion, Zinn plots out a course of hope, of resistance against the system, by describing the struggles, victories, and defeats of popular resistance in U.S. history.
Once I accepted his premise, however, I found his promise of hope expressed by the history itself bleak and disillisioning. ...more
It makes it seem pretty hopeless. LIke the tiny rebel army against an empire. Like that fictional rebelion, Zinn plots out a course of hope, of resistance against the system, by describing the struggles, victories, and defeats of popular resistance in U.S. history.
Once I accepted his premise, however, I found his promise of hope expressed by the history itself bleak and disillisioning. ...more
