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I Was a Pushcart Peddler, Ph.D.
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This is Howard Zinn at his best. His sense of humor is mixed with a sharp intellectual critique. He says: “There’s no free marketplace of ideas any more than there is a free marketplace of goods. People talk about the free market. There’s no such thing. Every market is dominated by those people who have the power and wealth to dominate it. That’s true of goods, and that’s true of ideas. The marketplace of ideas is not free. It’s dominated by the people who control the educational system, own the media and publish the textbooks. All I was doing was wheeling my little pushcart into the marketplace. I was a pushcart peddler, Ph.D.” His talk is followed by an excellent Q&A.
Recorded at Cornell University.
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Howard Zinn
HOWARD ZINN CENTENARY 1922-2022
Howard Zinn, professor emeritus at Boston University, was perhaps this country’s premier radical historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were constantly moving to stay, as he once told me, “one step ahead of the landlord.” After high school, he went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During World War II, he saw combat duty as an air force bombardier. After the war, he went to Columbia University on the GI Bill. He taught at Spelman, the all-Black women’s college in Atlanta. He was an active figure in the civil rights movement and served on the board of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was fired by Spelman for his activism. He was among the first to oppose U.S. aggression in Indochina. His book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal was an instant classic. A principled opponent of imperialism and militarism, he was an advocate of non-violent civil disobedience. He spoke and marched against the U.S. wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. His masterpiece, A People’s History of the United States, continues to sell in huge numbers. Among his many other books are You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian and Original Zinn with David Barsamian. Shortly before his death he completed his last great project, the documentary The People Speak. Always ready to lend a hand, he believed in and practiced solidarity. Witty, erudite, generous and loved by many the world over, Howard Zinn, friend and teacher, passed away on January 27, 2010. He would say, Don’t mourn. Get active. The struggle for peace and justice continues.
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