Howard Zinn Quote
I remember my first reading of The Communist Manifesto, which Marx and Engels wrote when they too were young radicals; Marx was thirty, Engels twenty-eight. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. That was undeniably true, verifiable in any reading of history. Certainly true for the United States, despite all the promises of the Constitution (We the people of the United States … and No state shall deny … the equal protection of the laws).
Howard Zinn
I remember my first reading of The Communist Manifesto, which Marx and Engels wrote when they too were young radicals; Marx was thirty, Engels twenty-eight. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. That was undeniably true, verifiable in any reading of history. Certainly true for the United States, despite all the promises of the Constitution (We the people of the United States … and No state shall deny … the equal protection of the laws).
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About Howard Zinn
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at age 87.