Wild Europe
Who gets to decide who is and who isn’t civilized? Are we civilized? What about the Mayan and Aztecs or before them the Olmec, Toltec, and Zapotec? What about the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Pueblo peoples of the Southwest?
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Author: Roger
Zinn: Introduction
If the present author gets “stuck in the middle” and ends up taking flak from both sides . . . then he will consider his critique a success and his mission accomplished! To Zinn admirers and Zinn detractors, this essay is for you!
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Howard Zinn: Thesis and Rebuttal (1)
Zinn’s thesis 1:
The Bill of Rights was only added after popular protest; the Constitution is not written in the same spirit as the Declaration of Independence: the latter was revolutionary in its language while the Constitution merely reflects the interests of wealth and property.
Howard Zinn: Thesis and Rebuttal (2)
Zinn’s thesis 2:
The Declaration of Independence did not grant women the rights it granted men.
Howard Zinn: Thesis and Rebuttal (3)
Zinn’s thesis 3:
Change in a democracy comes from the bottom up, from protest, and not from the top.