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Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:13:43 -0500 |
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i'm reading Zinn's "History of the American People" now, but i didn't
know he also wrote one about WWI and/or WWII.
can someone tell the title(s)?
thx, norm
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> >>I have read leftist accounts of the causes of WWII, and I am reading Zinn
> >>now. That WWI was an imperialist war seems to be accepted among most
> >>historians, or at least among most accounts I have read, and Zinn states
> >>this too. WWII in many ways was a direct result of WWI so analyzing the
> >>causes of the later war is important. If WWI was imperialist and WWII was
> >>a result of WWI than one can say the fight against imperialism (and
> >>nationalism) was and still is crucial. And further, Zinn states (p.350)
> >>that WWI was needed to avert class war (at least in the US), and probably
> >>in Europe too. All of this is to say that class is primary, even in the
> >>history of the two wars.
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