Have you read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" yet?

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Poll question: Have you read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" yet?

This book changed my political views more than any other. It radicalized me. I wonder what percentage of DLC cheerleaders and corporate-capitulation-status-quo enablers on the Left have read it. This book, more than any other, led me to, first, do more research into the struggle for civil rights and freedom in this country (from Shay's rebellion to the Haymarket to the SLCC to...), and, second, to realize that we do, in fact, live in an oligarchy (or perhaps plutocracy, take your pick). This isn't just an abstract notion; it is, and has been, from the beginning. The country was purposefully created to maintain the oligarchy at all our expense.

Hence I am not very likely to compromise, support Hillary, etc. (no flames, please - I will support Hillary if she is the nominee, I am just disappointed/enraged at the prospect).

I strongly recommend this book, and the independent investigation it instigated, to my fellow DUers who are Zinn virgins. Then move on to Chomsky.

Thoughts?

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