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LProyect is too kind to Michael Kazin. Kazin ends his article with the statement: "But no work of history can substitute for a social movement." Well, a clearer case of attacking a straw man has, perhaps, never been written. No one, certainly not Professor Zinn, would have claimed otherwise. However, one thing that Howard Zinn understood, is that people are not likely to organize succesfully into social movements unless they have some understanding of the past, including an understanding of past social movements. And Zinn attempted to provide his reader just that with his A People's History of the United States. What has Kazin done that is in anyway comparable? Jim F. http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:18:53 -0500 Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> writes: > ====================================================================== > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/30/howard-zin n-america > > Kazin, like Sean Wilentz who made a snide comment on Zinn in the AP > > obit, have had a grudge against Zinn for a long time. The fact that > they > used his death as an opportunity to repeat old charges is > disgusting. > Even more disgusting is the wretched social democrat Kazin telling > Guardian readers that Zinn was insufficiently anti-capitalist. > ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=Yv2EgmXAvvsBXaU3zNhK0gAAJ1BRugI4sJACAWmXIev8NAFPAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA= ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
