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Howard Zinn is dead. While my own political development has led me down a different road than the one Zinn traveled for so long, he was so clearly such a good and kindly man that I can’t help but feeling a bit morose. His family and friends have my most sincere condolences. That said, [...] America today has a reputation for avarice, individualism, and a crude religiosity. These are not characteristics found in colonial America in great abundance. [...] In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels famously claimed that the ruling ideas of each age have been the ideas of its ruling class. This assertion has been dismissed by all save for the serious students of history. We’re told that there’s a “marketplace of ideas” in which ideas fairly and freely compete, with [...] Racist violence in Italy shows the weakness of the working class. How can it be overcome? [...] Fischer over at Notes from Underground recently blogged about the BBC’s miniseries adaptation of Dickens’s Little Dorrit and the critique of capitalism implicit in it. I can’t comment on that work as the only Dickens I’ve read is his 1854 novel Hard Times, but that’s fine because Hard Times is one of the finest [...] |
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