A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn

Author:Howard Zinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Henry David Thoreau, provoked by the war in Mexico and the nationalist fervor it produced, wrote: “Nations! What are nations? … Like insects, they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable.” In our time, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle places nations among those unnatural abstractions he calls “granfalloons,” which he defines as “a proud and meaningless association of human beings.”

There have always been women and men in this country who have insisted that universal standards of decent human conduct apply to our nation as to others. That insistence continues today and reaches out to people all over the world. It lets them know, like the balloons sent over the countryside by the Paris Commune in 1871, that “our interests are the same.”

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