Splendid Zinn

[marmar]

"Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles.

Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts."

-- Howard Zinn, from Declarations of Independence

[pnorman]

1. There isn't near as much Zinn on the web as there is Chomsky.

But there is some, and here's a fuller except from that book: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/AmericanIdeology_DI.html

Thanks for getting me to Google!

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r