Howard Zinn at MIT 2005 - The Myth of American Exceptionalism

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  • Howard Zinn (1922-2010) offers a talk at MIT titled “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” on March 14, 2005. He is the inaugural lecturer in the series “Myths About America” organized by MIT’s Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS), which is hosted at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He is introduced by Bish Sanyal, director of the SPURS/Hubert Humphrey Program.
    Howard Zinn is renowned as the author of “A People’s History of the United States” (1980). Historian, playwright and self-described democratic socialist, Zinn was chair of the history and social sciences department at Superman College, and political science professor at Boston University.
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  • @codybanks1942
    @codybanks1942 3 года назад +1006

    One of my favorite Zinn quotes;
    "Patriotism isn't believing in your government. Patriotism is believing in the principles that your government is supposed to uphold"

    • @ionutbalta6607
      @ionutbalta6607 3 года назад +34

      @PostHawk They conquered Spain just like any Nation did like USA when it "manifested destiny."

    • @colonelfrogs
      @colonelfrogs 3 года назад +50

      @PostHawk the fraud is you playing scholar over the internet

    • @patriciadanon6191
      @patriciadanon6191 3 года назад +23

      Zinni was a communist and a liar his book on his fake book on history was debunked by other historians this man was evil and he misled many and his book is still misleading many I never knew about him but they I know how the schools are misleading many students and others to take America down the road to communism

    • @colonelfrogs
      @colonelfrogs 3 года назад +9

      @PostHawk being labeled a historian lol, and who the hell is Howard Zin

    • @colonelfrogs
      @colonelfrogs 3 года назад +20

      @PostHawk question, why are you hell bent on commenting on RUclips threads about this? And what are some examples of things he lied about?

  • @moesiatestecles1975
    @moesiatestecles1975 3 года назад +248

    6:30 Intro skip service

  • @carolechetwynd-bryant534
    @carolechetwynd-bryant534 2 года назад +18

    In the 1960’s, Viet Nam, and all that , there was an ad on tv “ you can’t have a war if nobody shows up”

  • @ToddWrightthedrummer
    @ToddWrightthedrummer 2 года назад +140

    Man, the throwback to the Bush doctrine. I forgot about those discussions I had with EVERYONE concerning the illegal re-invasion of Iraq. Thanks, Dr. Zinn! May you be resting in peace.

    • @daytonabeachUSA
      @daytonabeachUSA 2 года назад +6

      Resting in power for sure.

    • @chrisflanagan4495
      @chrisflanagan4495 Год назад

      May he be rotting in hell!!! And he most surely is!!!

    • @FAMIZ26
      @FAMIZ26 Год назад

      0

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 10 месяцев назад +1

      Social movements.
      Cornel West 2024 ❤

    • @lasagnajohn
      @lasagnajohn 8 месяцев назад

      It isn't illegal or immoral to attack bad guys and save millions if not billions of lives. It's ALWAYS a tough call, but POTUS has rights, responsibilities, and is ELECTED to the office. POTUS can't be guilty of crimes other than U.S. Law; only WE THE PEOPLE can be.
      Sadam made binding agreements to stay in power after Gulf War. Then he broke them a dozen times. He had been bragging about having WMD. He was also a devout pan-Arabist.
      China is hard to deal with but at least they don't hate us. A pan-Arab entity would HATE us, and would definitely prefer to deal with either China and Russia.
      If we were too hippie to nip that in the bud early, you could say good-bye to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel just for starters.
      How was it illegal? The U.S. President is only subject to U.S. Law. POTUS can break treaty agreements and commitments as he sees fit unless they are made U.S. Law by Congress. Some are, some aren't. Not that it was legally necessary but U.S. Congress did pre-approve the war. unanamously except for Obama if memory serves. I was against Iraq 2 but I was young and dumb. I've lived a LOT, seen thing, far more educated, far wiser now. Zinn, Chomsky, etc are GREAT Americans. We would be totally screwed without them. That said, they are only a part of the puzzle that is understanding the Worlds' realities. U.S. power and willingness to use it keeps a whole lot of badness in check. It's OUR job, yours and mine, to keep it honest.

  • @MessyMuzz
    @MessyMuzz 3 года назад +315

    “When the people fear their government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” - Thomas Jefferson

    • @warren5037
      @warren5037 3 года назад +38

      Time to ditch this thought. There isn't supposed to be fear, instead trust between govt and people. Because of this thought, America is living on the basis of fear instead of trust.

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад +10

      @@warren5037 Because of this thought? That THOUGHT is why?
      ...Conveniently not any critique of policy, lack of transparency or accountability in government, the reasonable assumption that personal interests of those in power come above the people as a whole... none of that... conveniently.
      Just a thought crime.
      Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

    • @warren5037
      @warren5037 3 года назад +10

      @@nunyabidnis3815 that thought is one of the reasons why so many Americans trust their govt.
      By not trusting your govt and its agencies, they are more likely to believe whatever the other party is saying, even if it goes against their interest. People are not willing to work together and any progress is either stopped or slowed down.
      With the govt fearing the people, they are reluctant to make any announcements or become more transparent about policy because they fear that people could miscontrue the intentions or become influenced by malicious third parties or disinformation. So the govt, especially the people in it, finds it more worthwhile to pursue their own private goals than accomplishing national or state goals.
      Since the govt fears the people, why should the govt work with the people?
      If the people fear the govt, why should the people work with govt?

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад +3

      @@warren5037 That bit of 'truism' reminds me of Hempel's paradox.
      ...And likewise, tries to justify Hobbes' Leviathan? Hard pass. Even in Leviathan, a government that cannot protect it's people still isn't worth defending.. and if it's defense is the greatest cause of danger, then that's a clear conflict of interest.
      If the assumption is, because someone criticizing a power structure may be in a position to benefit.. that this is why you cannot listen to criticism at all, and should double down on your faith in the thing being criticized? I mean, are you familiar with the term, "victim blaming?"
      Speaking of which, when someone offends and is allowed to get away with it, it emboldens them to re-offend and escalate.. meaning a lack of criticism and oversight encourages worse behavior.
      My thought is... if the fears of what-ifs are hypothetical, and the alternative is unacceptable, there's a fault in the rational that picks the alternative.. and that fault can be inspired by paranoia. Like... here's the inverse.. what if the red-scare is the thing enabling the US to be the evil usurping power? lol, Right? That's equally possible here.
      One talks about how to disincentivize authoritarianism, the other is red-scaring authoritarians.. Gotta say, I'm reaching a far different conclusion than you have.

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад +5

      @@warren5037 If the people have reason for concern, and cannot know of or voice those concerns, they live ignorant under totalitarian dictatorship, or are delusional uncritical fanatics.
      Do you not see a problem with that?

  • @ronaldelliott4373
    @ronaldelliott4373 3 года назад +236

    “I support my country always. I support my government when they deserve it.” ... Twain... Thank you Howard for reminding us, like Twain, to be reasoned critical thinkers. Peace.

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 3 года назад +6

      When was the last time my government deserved it?
      Watch the 3 minute clip
      "You have no choice" by
      George Carlin.
      If I send the link youtube deletes this comment.

    • @roselawson277
      @roselawson277 3 года назад

      So you support criminals? Nice

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +7

      So an author of one stupid book should determine citizens view of their "government". That's SO stupid. . Go back to your video games, WUS and hiding in your mommy's closet.

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 3 года назад +10

      @@91dodgespiritrt It is not ONE author, there are millions. American exceptionalism consists
      of arrogance and ignorance. And 800 military bases in 120 countries ruclips.net/video/QXFProJC5FY/видео.html
      Go back to your exceptionalism

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 3 года назад

      @@91dodgespiritrt ruclips.net/video/6Z-COU54CAc/видео.html

  • @baldwintheanchorite
    @baldwintheanchorite 2 года назад +46

    Bish Sanyal, thanks for welcoming me personally for being here x what a wonderful man to reach through 15 years and a whole cosmic web to this moment for me. What a privelege to be in the audience.

    • @baldwintheanchorite
      @baldwintheanchorite 2 года назад +2

      The jijivisha is strong

    • @williamwhitten7820
      @williamwhitten7820 2 года назад

      You will be gnashing your teeth in the new dystopia brought to you by traitors like Zinn in the very near future. All you Commie freaks should burn in hell.

    • @matthewmaguire1716
      @matthewmaguire1716 2 года назад +3

      @@baldwintheanchorite According to an article, 15 Hindi Words You Can’t Translate Into English, Ever, “Jijivisha means the intense desire to live and to continue living to the fullest in the highest sense of being” (Mukherjee, 2017).
      Another way to look at this is this word describes someone who loves their life and has a strong ambition to prosper.

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @Ronniezim
    @Ronniezim 3 года назад +34

    Thanks so much for uploading this!

  • @paulgibby6932
    @paulgibby6932 3 года назад +101

    1:32:42 "We have a long way to go". RIP Howard Zinn. A long way to go to solidify social consciousness in the US. It's tough that labor unions have (apparently) lost their strength. Workers should be united no matter what trade, no matter what country they live in.

    • @freenational
      @freenational 3 года назад +9

      The elites know the power of unions. That is why the leaders are corrupted as soon as they are elected.

    • @godssara6758
      @godssara6758 2 года назад +2

      Zinn is a liar.

    • @williamwhitten7820
      @williamwhitten7820 2 года назад

      We don't have that far to go Gibby, now that the Neo-Marxist Biden regime is in power, the United States is the closest it has come to loosing it's sovereignty and freedom since the Civil War, all due to the vile anti-American teachings of this Communist traitor Howard Zinn, that prepped the younger generations of his time for the vile Woke Critical Race nonsense of the current era. *Enjoy your new poverty that is due to a neighborhood near you very very soon.*

    • @josef2012
      @josef2012 2 года назад

      Amen 🙏💗

    • @josef2012
      @josef2012 2 года назад +4

      @@godssara6758 Derrrrrp

  • @leftyshawenuph4026
    @leftyshawenuph4026 2 года назад +9

    He said the US refuses to give up landmines. The US refuses to give up landmines only in the Korean DMZ. The only thing keeping North Korean soldiers from walking into South Korea are about 37,000 troops and about a million landmines.
    I wonder what else he gets wrong...

    • @hitreset0291
      @hitreset0291 Год назад

      Government: "God help us we can achieve this"
      Everyone: "oh boy we are about to be screwed over again".

    • @molliestanton2869
      @molliestanton2869 Год назад

      I believe the US has had landmines in other countries. There is an international organization dedicated to providing prosthetic limbs for current victims, as the landmines still blow up little childrens' legs.
      I just looked it up, very unfortunately, the US was not a signatory on the mine ban treaty of 1997. That says something about its probable continued use by the US.

    • @leftyshawenuph4026
      @leftyshawenuph4026 Год назад +1

      @@molliestanton2869
      Korean DMZ is where the US refuses to give up landmines, regardless of what you "believe".
      "The US said that it will abide by the terms of the [Ottawa] Treaty, except for landmines on the Korean Peninsula."(Quoted from Wikipedia).

    • @bleachdemon7321
      @bleachdemon7321 10 месяцев назад

      A lot more than his sycophants would admit.

  • @exjazzer
    @exjazzer Год назад +2

    Thank you!

  • @Elisa-mg3rc
    @Elisa-mg3rc 2 года назад +8

    It warms the heart to hear such a kind and gentle view.

    • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921
      @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 2 года назад +1

      America is exceptional because it was founded on the belief in individual freedom. No other country has ever been founded on that unique principle. Take care.

    • @molliestanton2869
      @molliestanton2869 Год назад +1

      @@thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Too bad that idea of " individual freedom," didn't apply to the native residents.

    • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921
      @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Год назад

      @@tombash4329 Hey, tom: You must learn to think critically:
      1) The African captives were sold into slavery by other black Africans. No, that does not absolve the U.S. of taking part in slavery. The Civil War did that.
      2) The Native Americans were constantly at war with one another. The expansion eventually brought peace throughout the land. Native Americans received reservation land and today many tribes rolling in cash and are laughing all the way to the bank as a result of their right to have casinos on their reservations.
      3) It's unfair of you to judge people who lived a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years ago by today's moral standards. In fact, it's quite possible that 50 or 100 years from now, your moral beliefs will be questioned and ridiculed.
      4) America is the greatest country on Earth. Just ask the millions of aliens who have been migrating to the U.S. just during the past 19 months. They aren't risking their lives to get to Russia or China or any other country are they?
      Think, tom, think. Then, watch my two brief videos to learn more about Science and God.
      Take care.

    • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921
      @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Год назад

      @@tombash4329 Hey, tom: You must learn to think critically:
      1) The African captives were sold into slavery by other black Africans. No, that does not absolve the U.S. of taking part in slavery. The Civil War did that.
      2) The Native Americans were constantly at war with one another. The expansion eventually brought peace throughout the land. Native Americans received reservation land and today many tribes rolling in cash and are laughing all the way to the bank as a result of their right to have casinos on their reservations.
      3) It's unfair of you to judge people who lived a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years ago by today's moral standards. In fact, it's quite possible that 50 or 100 years from now, your moral beliefs will be questioned and ridiculed.
      4) America is the greatest country on Earth. Just ask the millions of aliens who have been migrating to the U.S. just during the past 19 months. They aren't risking their lives to get to Russia or China or any other country are they?
      Think, tom, think. Then, watch my two brief videos to learn more about Science and God.
      Take care.

    • @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921
      @thetruthaboutscienceandgod6921 Год назад

      @@molliestanton2869 Hey, Mollie You must learn to think critically:
      1) The African captives were sold into slavery by other black Africans. No, that does not absolve the U.S. of taking part in slavery. The Civil War did that.
      2) The Native Americans were constantly at war with one another. The expansion eventually brought peace throughout the land. Native Americans received reservation land and today many tribes rolling in cash and are laughing all the way to the bank as a result of their right to have casinos on their reservations.
      3) It's unfair of you to judge people who lived a hundred or two hundred or three hundred years ago by today's moral standards. In fact, it's quite possible that 50 or 100 years from now, your moral beliefs will be questioned and ridiculed.
      4) America is the greatest country on Earth. Just ask the millions of aliens who have been migrating to the U.S. just during the past 19 months. They aren't risking their lives to get to Russia or China or any other country are they?
      Think, tom, think. Then, watch my two brief videos to learn more about Science and God.
      Take care.

  • @mukesh_bombay
    @mukesh_bombay 3 года назад +53

    if only Professor Zinn could see how far we've fallen

    • @harsimarbhatia2927
      @harsimarbhatia2927 2 года назад +4

      It makes me so sad. Right wing grifters and BlueAnon liberals will be the death of this country.

    • @philgwellington6036
      @philgwellington6036 2 года назад

      It was a troubled time then! How long ago? What would he think nowadays? Cheech!

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад +10

      "if only Professor Zinn could see how far we've fallen"
      Well, considering Zinn has been debunked hundreds of times from actual historians... good.

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 2 года назад +7

      @@surreal6643 Actual historians such as?

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад +3

      @@oldishandwoke-ish1181 Arthur Schlesinger
      , Michael Kammen, Michael Kazin, Sam Wineburg, Oscar Handlin, etc. etc.

  • @evfreshair7312
    @evfreshair7312 2 года назад

    Thank you for posting

  • @clgraff76
    @clgraff76 3 года назад +328

    Us Americans are exceptional at denial.

    • @charlescook5542
      @charlescook5542 2 года назад +20

      Nah we know it’s bs, the US has some of the worst voter turnouts for its elections compared to other countries. It’s obvious the revolving door politician-lobbyist-businessman, I just wished they would pave the damn roads more than the occasional decade.

    • @halweilbrenner9926
      @halweilbrenner9926 2 года назад +8

      No we're not. 😁

    • @harsimarbhatia2927
      @harsimarbhatia2927 2 года назад +2

      @@charlescook5542 tell that to all the right wing cryptofascist morons in the comment sections

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 2 года назад +4

      "Us Americans are exceptional at denying" that we are exceptional thanks to the exceptionalism of "superior" people like Christopher Columbus, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 2 года назад +2

      @Bok Choy holding dual citizenship with Is-fake Israel, no doubt.

  • @goranborjesson5593
    @goranborjesson5593 3 года назад +64

    History has taught us that in time all empires fall

    • @trumpetflowerII
      @trumpetflowerII 3 года назад +6

      True, but the USA didn't last as long as the Greeks or Romans.

    • @Lea-rb9nc
      @Lea-rb9nc 3 года назад +7

      Absolutely. This one is young but it's falling hard and fast. It was sold out by those who were supposed to "serve and protect."

    • @Lea-rb9nc
      @Lea-rb9nc 3 года назад +5

      History also continues tto repeat itself.

    • @millabasset1710
      @millabasset1710 3 года назад

      @@Lea-rb9nc China won't have a reign, humans will be dead before 2100 even happens

    • @goranborjesson5593
      @goranborjesson5593 3 года назад +4

      @Thomas Tomei II in what way is USA great?

  • @shiblysadiq8680
    @shiblysadiq8680 2 года назад +29

    Wonderful initiative aimed at crossfertization of many different ideas about America prevailing among intellectuals across the world. The discussions are exceedingly illuminating.

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @goranbalen8222
    @goranbalen8222 3 года назад +29

    My country is the world, my religion is to do good, all mankid are my bretheren.
    Thomas Paine

    • @graterdeddly9527
      @graterdeddly9527 3 года назад +4

      Thomas Paine was a wacko -- he was so pleased to see the French Revolution until they threw him in prison, and he missed being guillotined by dumb luck, as the crazy radical left always eats its own. The American Revolution was conservative at heart, and intended to preserve natural liberties against tyrannical government. Howard Zinn is one of those that is blind to the that fact is only too happy to tear down the exact institutions that are protecting his liberty to spout off his nonsense.

    • @randyg2803
      @randyg2803 3 года назад +1

      @@graterdeddly9527 you understand in the american revolution we fought against the tories right The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, and also known colloquially as the Tories, Tory Party, or simply the Conservatives, is a political party in the United Kingdom. Ideologically, the Conservatives sit on the centre-right of the political spectrum.

    • @graterdeddly9527
      @graterdeddly9527 3 года назад +3

      @@randyg2803 I'm talking about "small c" conservative -- they were fighting for long standing rights associated with the Common Law, ones that they felt had been violated by a tyrannical King. That would be somewhat like Hobbes v. Locke -- once where the monarch can do as he likes as long as he does not threaten one's life (Hobbes) versus the monarch violating basic "endowed by our creator" rights. That's an essentially conservative idea, not revolution for the sake of overturning the existing establishment -- one can have a conservative revolution, it just depends on whether what is being overturned (such as an radical leftist regime), and what is being put in its place, like one that observes long held and established rights (American Republic). The Whigs were out of power during most of the Revolution, but they were in a coalition by the time of the Peace of Paris at the end (1783), and the PM was a former Whig -- but 1770s British domestic politics is not what I'm talking about.

    • @dougyoung221
      @dougyoung221 2 года назад

      Gotta love it.

  • @erpthompsonqueen9130
    @erpthompsonqueen9130 2 года назад +1

    Thank you.

  • @MessyMuzz
    @MessyMuzz 3 года назад +20

    “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” -Malcolm X

    • @garypendergraft1398
      @garypendergraft1398 3 года назад +4

      "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.".Head of Stalins Head Secret Chief of Police." Lavrentiy Breia. Reminds me of Adam Schiff.

    • @mariaconnors6287
      @mariaconnors6287 2 года назад +1

      @@garypendergraft1398 Schiff said, Trump's attacks on US elections would continue. Who didn't see fascists with Nazi & Confederate flags chanting, "Jews will not replace us" and "Heil Trump" before his attack on the Capitol? Who bragged he could shoot somebody and not lose a vote, repeatedly promised he'd accept election results only if he won and that he'd bring back torture? Whose answer to, When was America great? is under slavery?

    • @MessyMuzz
      @MessyMuzz 2 года назад

      @Juice - The Satanic Self-Proclaimed Chosen Tribei totally agree

  • @tonyedward6909
    @tonyedward6909 2 года назад +175

    When you are convinced you are "chosen people" or exceptional whether by a god or a nation state, you'll have no problem abusing others.

    • @aisaxonawiat6484
      @aisaxonawiat6484 2 года назад +3

      Too bad for you Zin was a communist liar and fabricated most everything he said.

    • @aisaxonawiat6484
      @aisaxonawiat6484 2 года назад +7

      @Dodd Rougeau ..... Try doing some actual research before the real history is completely re written or removed.
      If you don't think America is exceptional, you haven't lived outside the United States.

    • @elliegonzales8212
      @elliegonzales8212 2 года назад +14

      ​@@aisaxonawiat6484 Why is outside the United States the way it is? Much of it has to do with United States foreign policy....you're the one who needs to research friend. By American's standard of exceptionalism Sweeden, Canada, the Netherlands, etc. are far,far, beyond exceptional.

    • @aisaxonawiat6484
      @aisaxonawiat6484 2 года назад +5

      @@elliegonzales8212 ...... Go live in these places if you think they are better....common sense would dictate that.
      I know you have never lived in a Communist country and you do not understand Communist ideology, what life is like there, or their plans.... past, present, or future.
      You do not see people fighting to gain entry into any other country on Earth, there is a reason people around the world are willing to risk everything to come to America and there is no more loyal citizen of the United States than those who have lived in a communist country and understand the difference and they are grateful for what it means to live in America.
      Communists have almost completely destroyed everything America was intended to be, but God will not be mocked.
      Judgment and correction is happening and these communists will not be in power for long.
      America has been declared by God to be a land choice above all other lands and whosoever will possess the land will possess it in righteousness or they will be swept off and this is according to the Abrahamic Covenant God made with Abraham and those under the said covenant......
      When George Washington took the oath of office, he understood and swore to uphold this covenant on behalf of all people who would possess this land going forward.
      What you are witnessing now is a retraction of those blessings of that covenant.
      When there is a retraction of blessings, it happens in reverse order in which the blessings were given; the overwhelming majority of people living in America today are completely unaware of this covenant and the consequences for breaking that covenant.
      Communism has been in the United States now for over 100 years and their infrastructure is strong and deep and permeates all levels of government, all parties, and all factions of society ….. Especially within the media.
      These same people who have commandeered the government are in control of all governments around the world now and they are in the process of establishing a global communist centralized one world government as we speak.
      America is ripening for destruction, but that destruction will be poured out upon all nations prior to the return of Christ.
      There is much more to it than what I have mentioned here, but it is not reasonable to be able to cover all details in a RUclips post.

    • @aisaxonawiat6484
      @aisaxonawiat6484 2 года назад +1

      @Dodd Rougeau..... I am in agreement with what you say here, that was a good post.

  • @ThaTurdBurglar
    @ThaTurdBurglar 2 года назад +2

    History, we are in it now!!!

  • @patrickcope6258
    @patrickcope6258 3 года назад +34

    "A beLIEf is not knowledge, Only truth is the way to gain knowledge"
    Plato

    • @markanthony3275
      @markanthony3275 3 года назад

      A person must believe the truth...there is no other way for anything to enter the human consciousness except they first BELIEVE that it's true. This btw is the foundation of Christianity ...Jesus said " I Am the way , The TRUTH and the Life", and those who have experienced his presence believe that he is THE TRUTH. All Truth is God's Truth .

    • @Redactedlllllllllllll
      @Redactedlllllllllllll 3 года назад +1

      @@markanthony3275 damn, how are you a theist in 2021?

    • @markanthony3275
      @markanthony3275 3 года назад

      @@Redactedlllllllllllll Because I have an advantage over anyone who does not believe that Jesus was exactly who the Bible said he was...and that advantage is called prophecy . One aspect of the Bible's prophetic predictions describes how Israel will once again become a nation after it's total destruction in 70A.D. ...have you looked at a map of the middle east and seen a tiny nation called Israel ? Well it wasn't there before April 1948. Another description of what takes place has to do with the rise of "Global Consciousness" , this is the idea that people will have in their minds that they don't need God because they can all join together, solve their own problems and create their own reality ...and this is exactly what Zinn and others like him are trying to do right now .They are in rebellion against God's design for sexuality , God's design for family, God's design for a just and merciful society, and they will replace it with a counterfeit that will deceive everybody . The end result , the Bible says , is that God will judge the world for it's evil in turning against his designs , and over a half of the world's people will die through the judgements God sends upon them in a seven year period . Some of those judgements are , burning of a third of all trees , poisoning of drinking water , strange creatures that sting like scorpions , the sun darkened and not giving it's full light, the cessation of all wind , famine , economic collapse , people butchering each other in the streets...others eaten by wild animals as they try to flee the cities and hide in the countryside...100 pound hailstones falling . The Bible says that a slick , smooth talking world leader will arise , and will have miraculous powers so that people will actually worship him because he appears to have the answer to the world's problems . This world leader will be arrogant , and will force everyone to take his mark of ownership on their right hand or forehead, without which they will be prevented from participating in the economic system ( not allowed to buy or sell anything)...the Bible calls that world leader "the man of lawlessness" and " the man of sin" or " the anti-christ ". No doubt you've heard of this , but through pop-culture which doesn't explain who this person really is and how they will all be deceived by him. I call him "the final Hitler " because in many ways he will do exactly what Hitler did...including signing a peace treaty with Israel, and then attacking them and slaughtering half of them right in Israel. Now is the time that God is preparing America and the world for judgement. He allowed Donald Trump to be elected so that the enemies of God would become enraged and start putting in place the evil that they will be judged for. Joe Biden is preparing America and the world for that judgement by continually supporting everything that is ungodly , abortion, LGBT sexuality , giving the "weeds" in society the power to accuse "the vegetables" of corrupting the garden. Judgement is coming, the signs are all there.

    • @mathman43
      @mathman43 3 года назад

      @@Redactedlllllllllllll Being an atheist requires more faith than being a theist. St. Anselm and others gave several proofs for the existence of God. Where is your proof that there isn't a God?

    • @mathman43
      @mathman43 2 года назад

      @Michael Hayes I can prove that the square root of 2 isn't a rational number. Show me a proof that God doesn't exist. The burden of proof can work this. Did you have a strong or weak father?

  • @jimluebke3869
    @jimluebke3869 3 года назад +144

    Why does this audience assume that countries that see each other as equals, don't fight?
    That ignores most of the history of humanity.

    • @MrSp0iler
      @MrSp0iler 3 года назад +50

      Why is everyone silent that constitution of USA was written only for white people and that it is constitutional republic not democracy

    • @titanwarrior4886
      @titanwarrior4886 3 года назад +26

      @@MrSp0iler Say that again for the slow and sleepy!

    • @comentario-ur8rd
      @comentario-ur8rd 3 года назад +7

      Maybe it's referring to the nuclear era

    • @SherwinChow-cg3nw
      @SherwinChow-cg3nw 3 года назад +5

      It has more to do with perceived adversaries from each countries defense & national security apparatuses. They’ll always seeking a ‘boogie man.’ They can’t seek any one country as it’s equivalent & even if that was possible they would exaggerate as in the case of the former Soviet Union where US did so to exert more pressure on Congress for its military industrial complex even when relative peace & stability was present.

    • @MrSp0iler
      @MrSp0iler 3 года назад

      @@SherwinChow-cg3nw As 1 speaker said, aboriginal roots.

  • @jkstewartcreative
    @jkstewartcreative 2 года назад +9

    As I prepare to surrender a book I have held on to for a long long time because its a library book, I do so glad to have read it and glad that it provides me with an understanding of what Mr. Zinn continues to touch upon. That book is GUNFIGHTER NATION. Its rather lengthy it by a man named R. SLOTKIN.

    • @TranscendianIntendor
      @TranscendianIntendor 11 месяцев назад

      Dick Gregory's "No More Lies" is not to be missed either.

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@TranscendianIntendor
      🙏❤️🌎🕊🎶🎵📚

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @franciscomunoz2222
    @franciscomunoz2222 10 месяцев назад +4

    As a young man, I believed the bit about weapons of mass destruction. They even paraded "proof" at the UN-- by none other than Colin Powell. We need people like Mr. Zinn.

    • @cheri238
      @cheri238 10 месяцев назад

      Mr. Zinn has been loved by millions, and we have other examples such as writers of history and independent journalists.

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @dalic.zargham1240
    @dalic.zargham1240 3 года назад +77

    this man is another reason why, I as an Iranian love the american people. - Never, ever is too late to CHANGE:
    with kind regards to MIT from the good Ol' Vienna,.-)

    • @wnklee6878
      @wnklee6878 3 года назад +9

      This man is one in a million. That will never do.

    • @dalic.zargham1240
      @dalic.zargham1240 3 года назад +1

      my pleasure. god bless america

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +2

      @@wnklee6878 That's ONE too many. Hopefully, Satan claims him back very soon.

    • @raeliera
      @raeliera 3 года назад +5

      Zinn is cancer to our nation.

    • @kimyoung2748
      @kimyoung2748 3 года назад +8

      @@raeliera why would you say that?

  • @jonathanlax734
    @jonathanlax734 10 месяцев назад +3

    I was a student of Howard Zinn at BU in the early 1980s and even served him as an informal intern (informal since BU President "Herr Docktor" Sibler refused to fund student interns for him). He was an inspiring teacher and a straight wonderful guy to be around, very friendly, with a wicked sense of humor. You could always count on Prof Zinn to support any just cause, from anti-war protests to labor strikes. Long live his memory.

  • @jame2182
    @jame2182 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for history lesson

  • @MrArdytube
    @MrArdytube 3 года назад +114

    “Some day if a country so gifted will suddenly experience a disaster that no one can explain...”. Like Covid perhaps

    • @barrywhite9114
      @barrywhite9114 3 года назад

      @LowEnergyBoomer
      Right!
      ruclips.net/video/4qwfH7QVpXM/видео.html

    • @barrywhite9114
      @barrywhite9114 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/9aOhnK01wMY/видео.html

    • @joefoley1480
      @joefoley1480 3 года назад +3

      that "Covid" is affecting the whole world if you haven't noticed

    • @TheMyssT
      @TheMyssT 3 года назад +5

      Like January 6, 2021

    • @mindmesh7566
      @mindmesh7566 3 года назад +1

      COVID isn’t even close. True shared suffering.

  • @alexandrepereira3902
    @alexandrepereira3902 3 года назад +92

    I wish I had been smart enough to have attended such a prestigious institutions... where men like this one speak... thank God for internet...

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +3

      It's interesting to note that those criticizing "The United States" are those pieces of trash who are "inferior" to - and who do not look like - the patriotic "exceptional" Anglo Christian founding fathers that founded built and created "The United States".

    • @patbranigan6501
      @patbranigan6501 3 года назад +14

      If you understand this you were smart enough but just did not have the opportunity. And that is why so many who are brilliant are wasted by our society.

    • @kirstinstrand6292
      @kirstinstrand6292 3 года назад +6

      Most students who graduated "prestigious" schools are those Brain Washed by Narcissistic parents. Just Cognitive Dissonance that their offspring are not bright enough to figure out.

    • @boazklachkin4177
      @boazklachkin4177 3 года назад +2

      learn some grammar

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +2

      @Titus Tiger The world according to my view. please call them and let them know about my posts. HA, HA

  • @seanvassar1117
    @seanvassar1117 2 года назад +23

    "You can't be neutral on a moving train" Howard Zinn
    One of my favorite quotes

    • @SubvertTheState
      @SubvertTheState 2 года назад +3

      So that's where System of a Down got that line...

    • @laniefeleski7288
      @laniefeleski7288 2 года назад +1

      I was expecting him to be much more knowledgeable. E.G., the founding fathers believe in natural law, which states that men were imbued by God with unalienable rights. How did Howard Zinn, an American Historian, not know this basic fact?

    • @williamwhitten7820
      @williamwhitten7820 2 года назад

      @@laniefeleski7288 Because Howard Zinn was a Communist propagandist who indoctrinated a large portion of American youth during his era of disinformation. A precursor to the 1619 Project insanity, and the Woke Critical Race Theory blather and the people who don't even know what a woman is anymore. Like the new Supreme Court Justice...
      *God save America from these insane traitors!*

    • @laniefeleski7288
      @laniefeleski7288 2 года назад

      @@tombash4329 many of them did believe it. They wrote about the moral conflict in their journals. Slavery was tradition since mankind's beginning. They were the first ones to end it.
      So ill informed.

    • @laniefeleski7288
      @laniefeleski7288 2 года назад

      @@tombash4329 All of those are factual statements. lol. Are you okay?

  • @kevtherev8194
    @kevtherev8194 3 года назад +5

    Thanks from TAIWAN

  • @kylegellner8687
    @kylegellner8687 2 года назад +1

    Was Dr. Zinn chair of the history and social sciences department at Superman College, or Spellman College...?

  • @amp5334
    @amp5334 3 года назад +137

    Even in his eighties Howard Zinn remains astonished at human nature.

    • @PK-re3lu
      @PK-re3lu 3 года назад +8

      Horrified is probably a better word... He must have been horrified...

    • @rolandrodriguez3854
      @rolandrodriguez3854 3 года назад +21

      Even in his eighties he held tight to his ignorance. I am not impressed.

    • @PK-re3lu
      @PK-re3lu 3 года назад +42

      @@rolandrodriguez3854 The history of US murder worldwide was exposed because of great men like him. No one really cares you are unimpressed.

    • @SherwinChow-cg3nw
      @SherwinChow-cg3nw 3 года назад +1

      Mark Rymanowski why are you so concerned with his private life as if to excoriate Professor Zinn for what he mentioned.

    • @titanwarrior4886
      @titanwarrior4886 3 года назад +8

      @@PK-re3lu I care so that makes your immature and arrogant assumption null and void.

  • @chucklattanzio2857
    @chucklattanzio2857 2 года назад +30

    Wonderful lecture. tThank you Howard Zinn. You are missed.

  • @Hollis_has_questions
    @Hollis_has_questions 2 года назад +1

    How To Distinguish a Warning Shot From a Shot? - the warning shot is the one that misses; there may or may not be some pause thereafter.

  • @508ctk
    @508ctk 2 года назад

    Thank u.

  • @samcoffeen4762
    @samcoffeen4762 3 года назад +7

    At 40:55 when Professor Zinn was talking about how Bush was being viewed as a departure from the system it immediately brought to mind the media discourse around trump

  • @felixrabe
    @felixrabe 3 года назад +14

    I really liked the questions at the end, especially starting 1:17:12.

    • @TrggrWarning
      @TrggrWarning 3 года назад +1

      Brits were “forced” to? They modernized the world not once did he mention US being Israel’s proxy attack dog used and abused.

  • @victormonreale9217
    @victormonreale9217 3 года назад +32

    History is the examination of sorrows.

    • @patriceortovent6451
      @patriceortovent6451 3 года назад +3

      Well said. As far as l am concerned having fought all my life as a Marxist left from Europe, l came to the conclusion that history is the detailing of the dirty washing of mankind. No detergent can clean the blood stain on every page on the history of mankind.

    • @palmpalm5131
      @palmpalm5131 3 года назад +5

      True, history is full of sorrow.. if only we can learn from history to prevent further sorrow.

    • @ruthpurkey5682
      @ruthpurkey5682 3 года назад

      @@patriceortovent6451 The hundreds of millions killed by marxist regimes would find your reference to history's "dirty washing" ironic.

    • @ruthpurkey5682
      @ruthpurkey5682 3 года назад

      @@henk7747 Marx's bull schiff "philosophy" has inspired regimes responsible for the murder of millions.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 3 года назад +25

    So ... the dude is a real hero! Dropped bombs over the Nazis and keeps dropping bombs over those who thing they're the superior ones!!! A true hero in war and peace!!!

    • @LukeMcGuireoides
      @LukeMcGuireoides 2 года назад +3

      He would strongly disagree. According to him, he did not drop bombs on nazis but on German civilians. He participated in the fire bombing of Dresden. Zinn was a truly great man though. Read his work. Its beautiful and devastating

  • @wallistag8888
    @wallistag8888 3 года назад +21

    God protect children, drunkards and Americans, Bismarck once said.

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 3 года назад +2

      It seems God got tired ... or his spent after taking care of Brazilians.

    • @GlobalDrifter1000
      @GlobalDrifter1000 3 года назад +1

      Only once?

    • @MrSp0iler
      @MrSp0iler 3 года назад

      They dont even understand they are constitutional republic not democracy

    • @NomenFugazi
      @NomenFugazi 3 года назад

      Walli Stag He should have been more worried about Germany.

    • @MrSp0iler
      @MrSp0iler 3 года назад +2

      @@NomenFugazi He did, germans prospered and were strong. Until banks were forced to finance production instead of leeching off money in Germany and then ww1 and ww2 was started. Even today national socialists are demonized by animals that call themselves humans.

  • @exjazzer
    @exjazzer Год назад +1

    This just begins a journey down the rabbit hole.

  • @kimyoung2748
    @kimyoung2748 3 года назад +18

    What's the difference between God and a politician? God knows he is not a politician.

  • @shelleylabar6310
    @shelleylabar6310 Год назад +5

    Who in our world could actually "Replace" Howard Zinn? So Sad.

  • @ShahidKhan-ke8fe
    @ShahidKhan-ke8fe 2 года назад +7

    The thing that foreigners (especially from Western countries) to America notice immediately is the size of its supermarkets. It's impressive. But I'm pretty sure none of them would trade it for their universal health care.

    • @breadfan1071
      @breadfan1071 2 года назад

      As if it is totally impossible to have both? or more for that matter.

    • @ShahidKhan-ke8fe
      @ShahidKhan-ke8fe 2 года назад

      @@breadfan1071 we don't need supermarkets that big in England. It would be a waste of space; there just aren't enough people in the country.

  • @sizzla123
    @sizzla123 2 года назад +1

    Exceptional lecture

  • @linolomaga6667
    @linolomaga6667 2 года назад

    Awesome indeed

  • @Kid_Ikaris
    @Kid_Ikaris 3 года назад +57

    Powerful words, especially when he gave this speech. We should try our best to never forget the travesties of the war on terror.

    • @pitchforkpeasant6219
      @pitchforkpeasant6219 3 года назад +4

      Which will never end

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +1

      @@pitchforkpeasant6219 For as long as Is-fake Israel exists.

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад

      @@91dodgespiritrt "For as long as Is-fake Israel exists."
      Israel existed thousands of years before Palestine was even a thought. If you believe Indians should be the only population of America, then you should believe in Israel.

    • @liegesaboya8265
      @liegesaboya8265 2 года назад

      @@surreal6643 Indians should be the only populations of both north and south America . As for Israel ,Muslins and Jews were living side by side very well for hundreds of years until the creation of the sionism movement , in the wave of the European colonization of Africa and the Middle East , that brought huge suffering till now for all the native population .

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад

      @@liegesaboya8265 "Muslins and Jews were living side by side very well for hundreds of years until the creation of the sionism movement , in the wave of the European colonization of Africa and the Middle East , that brought huge suffering till now for all the native population ."
      False. Islam was founded in 610 AD. In 624, Mohammed started attacking and by 632 in which they have conquered the bulk of western Arabia and Palestine. Jews could not own weapons, they could not ride on horseback, they couldn't build buildings, and had to bow to their muslim masters when they paid their taxes.
      The entire thing you wrote was false. 100% verifiably false. Which means you lied. Willingly.
      If you believe "Indians should be the only populations of both north and south America ."
      Then that means Muslims should never attack Israel and should leave Israel as it was called Israel 10,000 years before Muslim was a religion.

  • @Pravda_Z
    @Pravda_Z 3 года назад +153

    "Yeah....we tortured some folks..." Barack Obama

    • @TheBalterok
      @TheBalterok 3 года назад +9

      He meant those that were ready to behead, burn alive and mass murder. Hussein, of course, omitted that. Stupid man - poured a lot of gasoline on the whole of Mid East by giving Iran 100 bill.

    • @ninjalarv
      @ninjalarv 3 года назад +46

      @Robin Yu You are either against torture or you're not. Being ok with torture of people you hate is simply being ok with torture. Just like rape it is never ok. It is never ok for it to happen to anyone and it is never ok to make/let anyone do it.

    • @ninjalarv
      @ninjalarv 3 года назад +23

      @Robin Yu Are you also ok with rape if it could save lives? And what kind of torture? Waterboarding? Pulling fingernails? Maiming? Torturing loved ones to get confessions from a spouse/father/etc? Being pro-torture is being anti-humanist and anti-rule of law. And I might be wrong but I just assume you mean it only applies to non-americans and is not applicable ithin the american legal system.

    • @SherwinChow-cg3nw
      @SherwinChow-cg3nw 3 года назад +10

      Robin Yu how about if they tortured you? Appears you have no idea of what it entails!

    • @andresrtorres6895
      @andresrtorres6895 3 года назад +9

      Question: "What is THE NEW WORLD ORDER?"
      Answer: "WHAT WE SAY GOES"!, George H. W. Bush, before invasion of Iraq (Persian Gulf War).

  • @larrysmith2636
    @larrysmith2636 3 года назад +7

    Whatever the religious, economic, social ism, the human condition remains the same. Have a nice day.

  • @Gigika313
    @Gigika313 3 года назад

    Shared this.

  • @darkmattersproject2951
    @darkmattersproject2951 2 года назад

    Brilliant human beings

  • @thethirdgeneration1738
    @thethirdgeneration1738 3 года назад +18

    I meet him one time back in 2001, he came to my university and did one these talks in a large auditoriums ( just like above ); he talked about the war, his books, the coming Iraq war, 9/11, etc. We spoke to him outside in the hallway about some Union business, of our campus Union trying to organize, on the campus to which he had some experience. He was wise in his advice. We got sound information from him up close.

    • @JRobbySh
      @JRobbySh 3 года назад

      Did you know he was a Stalinist, a leader who killed more communists than the Germans did?

    • @thethirdgeneration1738
      @thethirdgeneration1738 3 года назад +3

      Judy S. Really? How so? I was not aware of that. How did that happen? a Stalinist ? When and where? He bombed and killed a lot of fascists, and realized capitalism was full of them back home in the US

    • @bismarkdeplessis9549
      @bismarkdeplessis9549 3 года назад

      @@thethirdgeneration1738 "I was not aware of that. How did that happen?"... Well, i can't help you then. Go back to your rioting and simping.

    • @thethirdgeneration1738
      @thethirdgeneration1738 3 года назад +3

      Bismark De Plessis their called books, you read them. You don’t eat them. Try reading them sometime.

    • @bismarkdeplessis9549
      @bismarkdeplessis9549 3 года назад

      @@thethirdgeneration1738 Try learning English.

  • @sufficientlyoldskool
    @sufficientlyoldskool 2 года назад +3

    The guy at the beginning may be going bald but he's going to make DAMN sure the hair he has left is _luscious_

  • @chucklattanzio2857
    @chucklattanzio2857 2 года назад +4

    Truth finally arrives

  • @jasonfirewalker3595
    @jasonfirewalker3595 3 года назад +3

    Grew up 60 miles from Boston. All news to me. I inferred from context in boy scouts.

  • @zimoyan7267
    @zimoyan7267 3 года назад +14

    Thanks Professor! Good learning time!

    • @Generalinane
      @Generalinane 3 года назад +2

      LOL. Zinn cherry picks "facts" that fit his thesis.

    • @fritobelize6271
      @fritobelize6271 3 года назад

      @Space Monkey then no other " empire " did towards another what the United States accomplished. Still the hope is what happened to the Japanese people that cultures that threatened humanity as well as their own population can change quickly to embrace freedom.

  • @craigp497
    @craigp497 3 года назад +10

    nobody owns anything in life, including land. we only use things, so long as we can protect it from others.

    • @sasjahuntelaar5755
      @sasjahuntelaar5755 3 года назад +5

      That's sir is the thinking of a thief.

    • @pietroaretino6390
      @pietroaretino6390 3 года назад

      It's a pity we can't just all get along and help one another. I feel like that would actually be easier than killing each other and being assholes.

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад

      @@sasjahuntelaar5755 And yours is the brainwashed thinking of a leftist victim who can't think for herself.

    • @craigp497
      @craigp497 2 года назад

      @Bok Choy so what your saying is that the "police" give you the right of ownership???....hahaha

    • @craigp497
      @craigp497 2 года назад

      @Bok Choy maybe you should read what i said again then 🧐

  • @kennethobrien8386
    @kennethobrien8386 3 года назад

    Anyone know the date of this lecture? 2006 or so?

  • @unggrabb
    @unggrabb 3 года назад +28

    Brilliant Man. His website has a lot of excellent documents from which to learn.
    Religion poisons everything. Hitchins was so spot on

    • @ronaldelliott4373
      @ronaldelliott4373 3 года назад +2

      Yes he was, wasn’t he!

    • @zabrak999
      @zabrak999 3 года назад +3

      *tips fedora*

    • @vikaspanchal8015
      @vikaspanchal8015 3 года назад

      Whats his web site domain i want learn more 🙏

    • @nickburak7518
      @nickburak7518 2 года назад +4

      I have to respectfully disagree with you on your point of religion. While there are over 30,000 legal 'religions' in the US, from the questionable Spaghetti Hats to the sublime Hare Krishnas, few can be considered as authentic. Of those perhaps there is but a sliver of genuine participants that actually follow the precepts sincerely as set out by its founder. They do not make their religion look bad. But it does not mean that the religion is poisonous - its those who are ignorant of the precepts the religion holds.
      We live in dark and confusing timez. Yet we choose to be blind, deaf and dumb to the coldness in our hearts. Religion is not to be blamed, it is the fool who cares not to take an honest look at himself and try to purify his existence, preferring to cast stone on others. Jesus understands this as does any saintly soul - of which there are many more than anyone can ever imagine. Remember that God is the founder of actual religion, and he is all-perfect. But if one doesn't believe in God, Krishna, then what purity can that person ever bring to this world? And if one wants to challenge the reality of God, then speculation that He doesn't exist is all they have. So what such non believer is unwittingly saying is that man is the poison, not religion.
      RUclips and indeed the world is full of such characters who fail to see the truth for want of their own opinion. Why is it a surprise to anyone that it has always been mankind that is full of poison and confusion, despite being so capable of love and truthfulness?

    • @unggrabb
      @unggrabb 2 года назад +1

      @@nickburak7518 no proof of any nagic man in the skye, none. Religion encourages genocide, slavery, supression of women and gay people and sexual mutilation of children. Pure evil shit.

  • @geofromnj7377
    @geofromnj7377 3 года назад +64

    When Winthrop used the phrase "city on a hill", he was telling his followers that they must behave morally at all times and live up to their moral standards because the world was watching and could see the colony as clearly as if it were a city on a hill. He did not say that it was a shining city on a hill. He merely said that everyone in England was watching.

    • @HarrySmith-hr2iv
      @HarrySmith-hr2iv 3 года назад +7

      General Winthrop led a group of Puritans and Pilgrim Fathers who wished to escape persecution in the UK. In the UK. The Anglican Church ruled and it insisted Gods representative on Planet Earth was the King or Queen of England. The Church was debauched and immoral and excessively taxed everybody to pay for their lifestyle. General Winthrop rejected this. Equally objectionable was The Catholic Church which taught Papal Infallibility and the final and absolute authority of the Pope in Rome.
      Greetings from UK.

    • @rockinray6197
      @rockinray6197 3 года назад +3

      What was Cotton Mathers about? The gospel of divine enlightenment? Something like it ..found in wikipedia 'secularism is the realization, of the Kingdom of God on Earth' .. Whoa ...

    • @scotthullinger9955
      @scotthullinger9955 3 года назад +2

      The idiots who mention "bone spurs" are also the same idiots who supposedly abhor war. They can't can't have it both ways. But at least they can always try. HA!

    • @Patriot11111
      @Patriot11111 3 года назад +6

      this globalist cares nothing about truth

    • @moesiatestecles1975
      @moesiatestecles1975 3 года назад +15

      @@Patriot11111 Your state is ruled by corporate globalists. Or do you call them "job creators"?

  • @Hollis_has_questions
    @Hollis_has_questions 2 года назад +19

    When a deity is the source of governmental power, then anything can be both justified and justifiable. This is, to paraphrase Jane Austen, a truth universally acknowledged, and acted upon.

    • @mrscavayeah7453
      @mrscavayeah7453 2 года назад +1

      Deity is not the source of governmental power. Deity is the source of the rights that the gov has no business in. The gov caused the problems we face by taking over and obliterating community and family.

    • @Hollis_has_questions
      @Hollis_has_questions 2 года назад

      @@mrscavayeah7453 Not true. The First Amendment delineates the rights, held by citizens, in which the government has no business - the “THEY shalt nots” of the Bill of Rights, “they” being the government. Popular myth would have it that ours is a government founded upon the myth of judeochristian values - the “judeo” part being there as a token nod - whereas in reality the American government was set up to be secular in nature. Community and family have both got in the condition they’re in because of the control that the strictures of religion - the “THOU shalt nots” - place upon relationships between and among people in those communities and families. The process of “Othering” is totally within the sphere of commands supposedly issued by deity through “holy” writ - of dubious supernatural construct - not the rights, instituted among Men, actually delineated by our founding instruction manual - an actual document.

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад

      @@Hollis_has_questions "Not true. The First Amendment delineates the rights, held by citizens, in which the government has no business - the “THEY shalt nots” of the Bill of Rights, “they” being the government."
      True.
      "Popular myth would have it that ours is a government founded upon the myth of judeochristian values - the “judeo” part being there as a token nod - whereas in reality the American government was set up to be secular in nature."
      Still with you.
      "Community and family have both got in the condition they’re in because of the control that the strictures of religion - the “THOU shalt nots” - place upon relationships between and among people in those communities and families."
      Here is where you lost me. The control and structures of religion have no bearing on family values. The entire structure of almost all religion is a church. A church is part of a community... not a family. So now you have to prove that Judeo-Christian values caused the problem of the community... which you did NOT do. You just generalized that it happened without stating a reason of why you believe that.
      "The process of “Othering” is totally within the sphere of commands supposedly issued by deity through “holy” writ - of dubious supernatural construct - not the rights, instituted among Men, actually delineated by our founding instruction manual - an actual document.""
      Othering is again a community thing which has nothing to do with family... which also has nothing to do with the post of which you are replying. It's just static sounds to confuse the argument that the government did indeed cause the problems by obliterating community and family by trying to state that "othering" is a thing of holy writ... which it was a human condition... not a religious condition.

    • @mikimeadows
      @mikimeadows 2 года назад

      If the state is the sorce of your rights then the state can take them away. People who emphasize your rights come from God emphasize that they are yours and cannot be taken away.

    • @Hollis_has_questions
      @Hollis_has_questions 2 года назад +1

      @@mikimeadows … Except by gods, through the mouths of those who claim to speak for the deities.

  • @TheToltec
    @TheToltec 3 года назад +2

    This was fantastic

  • @terryquesenberry9218
    @terryquesenberry9218 2 года назад +2

    I saw Him give a Speech at My University..."RADFORD" AWESOME!..TKQ

  • @luisa.melendezalbizu4459
    @luisa.melendezalbizu4459 3 года назад +28

    Howard Zinn was one of the greatest intellectuals of the US of the last Century. He is missed.

    • @muzakaz
      @muzakaz 3 года назад +4

      You need to actually go and study history. This human is intellectual fraud.

    • @luisa.melendezalbizu4459
      @luisa.melendezalbizu4459 3 года назад

      @@muzakaz From your dumb comment it is obvious that you are either super ignorant, or you depend or work for the Establishment, the Ind/Military Complex, or the Intelligence Services. Which one is it?

    • @deborahdean8867
      @deborahdean8867 2 года назад

      Ha! This guy is deluded and acts like he hasnt read much history. He's sick. He's like an abusive husband always putting down the wife. You listen to him telling how pathetic you are and drink it in, you need counseling for your self esteem

  • @plantman5126
    @plantman5126 3 года назад +78

    "I read some Howard Zinn now I'm always depressed" - NOFX

    • @Hanfgurkenhasser
      @Hanfgurkenhasser 3 года назад +17

      Don't watch any of Chris Hedges' speeches then. He is on a whole other level of Doomsaying.

    • @plantman5126
      @plantman5126 3 года назад +5

      @@Hanfgurkenhasser iI's a song quotation from the band NOFX

    • @adrijan6510
      @adrijan6510 3 года назад +23

      @PostHawk we believe it cuz our brains are opened. Unlike you that have been brainwashed by the same thing we criticize

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад +23

      @PostHawk ...and then we did the same shit. The idea of, 'X deserved bad things to happen by us, because they did bad things, too...' is the same justification anyone could use to do bad things to us, then. Right? Yet, even a critique of the bad we do is what, beyond the pale? How... just how.

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад +9

      @PostHawk While the west came to end it's slavery, it was also a massive national industry. Characterizing it's role in slavery as irrelevant, forgivable, understandable is every bit as wrong.
      I think maybe some wires are getting crossed.. because calling the west out on it's practices of slavery and later apartheid, or even how that impacts the national infrastructure today, is not saying they 'started it' or were the only ones at fault.

  • @Juan-ud3if
    @Juan-ud3if 10 месяцев назад

    The Best and Greatest Humans are those that Look at Themselves Honestly in the Mirror and Know Who and What they Really are. Their Faults, their Past and Present, and Strive to be Good.

  • @evanokeroa4877
    @evanokeroa4877 3 года назад

    Good sense

  • @elizdonovan5650
    @elizdonovan5650 3 года назад +67

    Another great American myth: That the U.S. can’t afford healthcare similar to Canada.
    🌲🌝☘️

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 3 года назад +7

      not a myth, they proof it day after day. Not only Canada but ALL civilized countries

    • @andrewtanczyk4009
      @andrewtanczyk4009 3 года назад +1

      @@mc-lb9dk yep

    • @chaserofthelight484
      @chaserofthelight484 3 года назад +8

      There’s like 33 developed countries and all but the US and maybe one more who doesn’t have medical for their citizens. Israel has medical, and college, plus state funded abortion (no one says anything about that). We gave them
      over $9 billion from January of last year to January of this year. We can give 100’s of billions to corporations, some failing because of bad business practices, and a tax cut down to 21% for the wealthy and corporations. There was almost 100 companies who had a 0% tax rate or below in 2020. They’re cutting all the social programs and would love to cut Social Security or do away with it all together. Next we have a military budget as much as the next 10 countries, we’re also $21 trillion in debt and our Federal Reserve is printing trillions. So with all this, it’s not a myth.

    • @Cookie-ri9pz
      @Cookie-ri9pz 3 года назад +6

      Healthcare in the US is for profit not a human right. Greed in my country is on steroids. It will be our downfall. Brought down by 1% of some greedy elites.

    • @mc-lb9dk
      @mc-lb9dk 3 года назад +5

      @@Cookie-ri9pz US = human greed. not only healthcare. the latter is just internal greed. The global greed of the usa is way bigger.

  • @glicmathan1771
    @glicmathan1771 3 года назад +20

    I really miss Howard Zinn. He was such an enlightened soul and incredible human being.

    • @LukeMcGuireoides
      @LukeMcGuireoides 2 года назад +3

      Incredible activist

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 2 года назад +2

      Glad, he's finally in hell with his creator, "Satan".

    • @bullirish
      @bullirish 2 года назад +1

      @@91dodgespiritrt Amen.

    • @molliestanton2869
      @molliestanton2869 Год назад

      As a more enlightened soul, he asked something very simple of us: to stop reaching for war as a response to the " just cause." War hurts everyone -especially the innocent ( 85-90% of casualties are civilians.) Are we still in the caveman mode? We need to find better ways to respond.

  • @cynthiaennis3107
    @cynthiaennis3107 2 года назад +1

    @MIT Video Productions SPELMAN COLLEGE! Not Superman College! I hope that’s an autocorrect mistake! 😂

  • @dwarfsid
    @dwarfsid 2 года назад +3

    6:35 Program begins.

  • @calsavestheworld
    @calsavestheworld 3 года назад +5

    @6:32 - end of sidehair guy

  • @HunterX78
    @HunterX78 3 года назад +67

    Zinn books are the best to understand why USA thinks its owner of the world, first example was the war that stole half of Mexico. texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California

    • @pitchforkpeasant6219
      @pitchforkpeasant6219 3 года назад +6

      Typical human arrogance that transcends all time. It will never end. The known, the unknown, and the unknowable

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +6

      Moron, please understand American History. The Mexicans wanted the US to help it fight for its independence against Spain. Many of them wanted to join the US. In fact, the Mexican government actually paid Americans to settle in the territory now known as Texas - south of the Rio Grande. .THE LAND WASN'T STOLEN AT ALL.

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 3 года назад +7

      Zinn is a "fake news" spreading lying bastard - just like the rest of his traitorous tribe of greedy perverts.

    • @tanniknar
      @tanniknar 3 года назад +6

      You’re right. We should give it back to the Conquistadors to whom it rightfully belongs.

    • @spinningorb
      @spinningorb 2 года назад +5

      @@91dodgespiritrt Your comment is ridiculous and ahistorical.

  • @adrienpartier7207
    @adrienpartier7207 Год назад +1

    For an expanded and more thorough discussion on the history of US imperialism and a deconstruction of such concepts as terrorism, American exceptionalism or the Cold War, see Robert Buzzanco's lecture series "war, globalization and terror"

  • @rustyyb8450
    @rustyyb8450 Год назад +2

    Concerning American Indian Empires. A good read is: The Comanche Empire, by Pekka Hämäläinen
    Lots of parallels to The Mongol Empire.

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 2 года назад +25

    Thank you for a compelling lecture, " My country men are mankind", the BEST of HUMANITY.

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @dickvarga6908
    @dickvarga6908 2 года назад +39

    it worries me that so many well educated, well connected people can be so ready to use violence and follow such an erratic leader. Not the first time in world history but i did not expect to see it in USA.

    • @healthmiracles6379
      @healthmiracles6379 2 года назад +2

      it just goes to show you that anything is possible even the overthrow of democracy

    • @h.Freeman
      @h.Freeman 2 года назад +1

      👋🏿 i did, the country was founded by psychopaths and enslaved millions of people for 400 years not to have been

    • @2121beastmode
      @2121beastmode 2 года назад

      @@h.Freeman that's a lie.

    • @h.Freeman
      @h.Freeman 2 года назад +2

      @@2121beastmode what's a lie? Slavery? Only a psychopath would enslave another human and all of the early presidents enslaved people. And not only did it hey enslave people but they brutalized them.

    • @Badmanxl5
      @Badmanxl5 2 года назад +4

      @@2121beastmode it's not a lie he's telling the truth you just don't want to hear it.

  • @thespartan8476
    @thespartan8476 Год назад +1

    There isn't really that many Americans that I could really admire or respect. But, I really enjoyed listening to Howard Zinn, indeed. I also really like his books. And I've noticed Americans call the American Empire. American foreign policy?! or American Exceptionalism?! I've also noticed how the Americans use the English words and than change the meaning of that word. Americans also make words up, as they go along. I need subtitles to understand American movies and TV. And people would need a psychiatrist to understand American and British culture. And no-way that's ever going to happen, period. Thank you, Mr Howard Zinn, indeed.

  • @maxgatica5736
    @maxgatica5736 Год назад

    Howard que pena se le recuerda MUCHO por sus charlas palabras con mucho peso

  • @duncescotus2342
    @duncescotus2342 3 года назад +17

    The Dresden bombing produced at least two shellshocked GI thinkers--Vonnegut and Zinn, and they demonstrate that there are two ways to deal with grotesque insanity that war makes apparent, further insanity, albeit cartoonishly softened for bestseller consumption a la Vonnegut, or a bitter sifting through rubble for something less ugly.

    • @kzinful
      @kzinful 3 года назад

      Dunce Scotus +
      Much better than the tripe you've spewed here.

    • @haroldfloyd5518
      @haroldfloyd5518 2 года назад +1

      I didn’t find Vonnegut (and especially S5) to be softened in anyway. Vonnegut showed how empty and meaningless concepts like patriotism and justice really are.

    • @duncescotus2342
      @duncescotus2342 2 года назад +1

      @@haroldfloyd5518 Fair enough, but sublimated by dark atheistic humor a la Mark Twain. Hopeless humor.
      Zinn, as a Jew, at least tried to find some ethical conclusions, and did a darn good job with "The People's History of the United States" in tracing the untold history of the losers.
      I'm a vet too, so I'm sympathetic. But I've seen the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, so I'm coming from what I think is a far superior perspective, the Christian one. But that's how I see it.
      It's not as though all of this war and stuff isn't foretold.
      Patriotism, not meaningless, only idolatrous.
      Justice, not meaningless, only hypocritical.
      Meaningless?
      Nothing that I can think of.

    • @philgwellington6036
      @philgwellington6036 2 года назад

      Thankyou scoutus, for the information. Very worthwhile.

    • @duncescotus2342
      @duncescotus2342 2 года назад

      @@philgwellington6036 Thank YOU for that thank you.

  • @delmariecrandall9229
    @delmariecrandall9229 3 года назад +7

    Will have to learn more about Professor Zinn's ideas. Very good lecture and Q&A session.
    from Canada

    • @Howtowithpaulaandjohn
      @Howtowithpaulaandjohn 3 года назад +3

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html He is a Communist.

    • @Hanfgurkenhasser
      @Hanfgurkenhasser 3 года назад +5

      @@Howtowithpaulaandjohn Oh no!
      ....anyway.

    • @Howtowithpaulaandjohn
      @Howtowithpaulaandjohn 3 года назад +4

      @Va Sr no, he was a member of the communist party.

    • @Howtowithpaulaandjohn
      @Howtowithpaulaandjohn 3 года назад +4

      @Va Sr No he was an actual Communist. Google it. Just like Saul Alinsky.

    • @crazyfx5242
      @crazyfx5242 3 года назад +2

      @@Howtowithpaulaandjohn Sadly these people don't care.. Zin was a fraud!!! These poor folks don't realize that Zin was like Hitler, but just an American..
      He knew how to manipulate people!

  • @chrisbutterfield2739
    @chrisbutterfield2739 2 года назад +1

    As a bald man, I cannot help but notice how the introducer is rocking that horseshoe. It's wild and out there. Gotta love that confidence

  • @gloriaalexander3448
    @gloriaalexander3448 2 года назад +22

    This is major important information and should be taught in all schools from junior high through college. I know I was not impressed with missing information in college. This should be requried reading. i believe this entire series should be offfered in junior high and high schools as well a teaching civics from first grade up!

    • @oldspammer
      @oldspammer 2 года назад +3

      I just google searched Howard Zinn leftist
      Articles come up explaining the HUGE failures of socialism of the 1900s that saw many tens of millions of innocent souls eliminated. The terror and carnage of this entire saga for the USSR was outlined variously by aleksandr solzhenitsyn gulag archipelago, then later explaining who was the root cause of such horrors.

    • @martinko4086
      @martinko4086 2 года назад

      Gloria Alexander, ..... ** All this bullshit was taught in schools cross the socialist countries ***. Meanwhile many of these socialist countries realized BIG MISTAKE , finished with socialism , installed capitalism and many of these countries are members of NATO now .

    • @GalacticNovaOverlord
      @GalacticNovaOverlord 2 года назад +3

      @@oldspammer ahh found the state department bot here

    • @oldspammer
      @oldspammer 2 года назад +1

      @@GalacticNovaOverlord You have found NOTHING of titanic interest. I am from Canada. About 15 years ago I was a lefty.
      I wanted to learn who invented and imposed income taxes among other things. I watched a series of informative videos that explained all kinds of the multiple reasons requiring taxation. The key reasons were that the country leaders who authorized the colonization of so called heathen lands treated the entire situation as a huge profit making investment scheme upon which they imposed a loans and interest charging as the structure for it all.
      After the late 1700s US revolutionary war, the UK king in the Paris peace treaty set forth all of the terms where he would not be as hands on with the leadership, but the return on investment the king still expected it as usual to keep rolling into his coffers. I think that the outstanding debt may have been sold a couple of times since that time, but the compounded interest on that investment still remains ongoing for whoever last made the debt purchase.
      It turns out that the debt grows exponentially fast and without bound not only due to deficits where collected taxes are insufficient to pay for government services plus debt servicing interest payments, even more debt is issued by way of government bonds and Treasury Notes lumped into the total debt principal.
      The objective to have central banking imposed originates from international bankers based out of Europe who also sponsored leftism including more recently Marxism as explained in their manifesto, starting several centuries ago or perhaps even before that. These guys endorse the philosopher Hegel's method of building up then burning down society via periodic or iterative revolutions and the making of laws that criminals do not obey, and after many cycles Utopia shall result. Trouble is that Utopia literally means No Where. And that the outcome is a delusional pipe dream.
      The entire thing is a money making scam for royalty of various kinds. This can be proven with a mental exercise involving the entire economy starting out as only $1 borrowed into existence centuries ago. While the economy remains only $1 in circulation, the debt principal owing has grown hugely. The entire economy of currency in circulation of $1 cannot repay the owing debt principal similar to how all Western nations have been similarly tricked.
      ruclips.net/video/WlkJxF2SM9w/видео.html Dean Stockwell hosts Phenomenon - The Lost Archives - Monopoly Men - The Federal Reserve System
      When I looked this up, Wikipedia said that Dean Stockwell died November 2021 or so at age 85 of natural causes in New Zealand.

    • @FardtilUshid
      @FardtilUshid Год назад

      The school day starts with worshipping the flag and then conditions you to the work week.

  • @joecaner
    @joecaner 3 года назад +11

    Howard Zinn was a global treasure.
    It is good that we still have his books and lectures.

    • @jdenmark1287
      @jdenmark1287 3 года назад +5

      Why is he a global treasure?
      I am glad we still have his books as evidence of his poor scholarship, and his propaganda approach to history.

    • @joecaner
      @joecaner 3 года назад +5

      @@jdenmark1287 "History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon,"
      Napoleon

    • @jdenmark1287
      @jdenmark1287 3 года назад +5

      @@joecaner post modern relativism is so yesterday.

    • @joecaner
      @joecaner 3 года назад +6

      @@jdenmark1287 And "propaganda" is a pejorative often employed by sycophants of an existing order to dismiss and minimize opponents who do not support their particular narrative.

    • @borisbadenov651
      @borisbadenov651 3 года назад

      @@joecaner ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @necklix
    @necklix 3 года назад +45

    Zinn was amazing in his research in historical facts. I appreciate this lecture so much! Thank you Professor Zinn!

    • @officeofpeaceinformation5094
      @officeofpeaceinformation5094 3 года назад +5

      Yes, he copied Nazi anti-American war propaganda word for word, its down right plagiarism, there's no point that Zinn makes that the Nazis didn't accuse America of, there's nothing even original with Zinn. Luce's American century, the treatment of the indians, american exceptionalism, the founding fathers were evil aggressive war mongers wanting to take over the world, all to be found in anti-american nazi propaganda in the 1940s.

    • @moestietabarnak
      @moestietabarnak 3 года назад

      @@officeofpeaceinformation5094 You know when propaganda is the most effective , when it's TRUE...
      The Nazi might have used the same TRUE History, just like Russia or Iran telling you WHO is the AGGRESSOR, the one having military base all around your country ? or the one protecting its territory and airspace ?

    • @officeofpeaceinformation5094
      @officeofpeaceinformation5094 3 года назад +1

      @@moestietabarnak If you dont think that Hitler was the aggressor in WWII you should learn history, read the 1920 NSDAP party program (Lebensraum in the east), Mein Kampf, Hitlers 1928 2nd book (Lebensraum in the east), They invaded the Sudentanland, Poland, France, started the battle of Britain by the first bomb attack on Coventry, attacked the Soviet Union 1941, declared war in the US. But the US was the aggressor according to you and all the anti-american nazi propaganda then and the neo-nazi propaganda now. If you dont self identify as a neo-nazi, you might just as well. I am not name calling, anti-americanism is a central part of the ideology.

    • @officeofpeaceinformation5094
      @officeofpeaceinformation5094 3 года назад +1

      @@moestietabarnak Propaganda is never true, if it were, it wouldn't be propaganda. "When a circle is a square" lol

    • @moestietabarnak
      @moestietabarnak 3 года назад +1

      @@officeofpeaceinformation5094 prop•a•gan•da prŏp″ə-găn′də►
      n. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
      n. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.
      n. A committee of cardinals (Congregation de Propaganda Fide, ‘for propagating the faith’) which has the supervision of foreign missions in the Roman Catholic Church.
      NOTHING in there suggest anything about TRUE or FALSE, RIGTH or WRONG...
      It's giving arguments for your cause, can be anything, true or false. But we all know it's easier to pass a LIE in the middle of many truth.

  • @Randall2023
    @Randall2023 3 месяца назад

    Love ❤️ Remember Howard Zinn

  • @shelleylabar6310
    @shelleylabar6310 2 года назад

    THANK YOU FOR THIS TRUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @cattycorner8
      @cattycorner8 2 года назад

      Zinn was an anti-American Communist propagaandist

  • @jasondelvaux3036
    @jasondelvaux3036 2 года назад +24

    As I'm listening to this, I also happen to be in the middle of "A People's History of the United States." It's so weird to hear him talking about stuff I just read. His book should be required reading for every citizen of this country.

    • @cattycorner8
      @cattycorner8 2 года назад

      It is Communist and anti-American.

    • @rillikinmcspliffelkinney3811
      @rillikinmcspliffelkinney3811 2 года назад +1

      If you want a one sided approach to history you're in luck.

    • @CatAtomic99
      @CatAtomic99 Год назад +1

      It's a fraud. He filled it with fabricated bullshit designed to make people hate this country, because he was a communist.

    • @cattycorner8
      @cattycorner8 Год назад

      @@CatAtomic99 You got that right, bro

    • @molliestanton2869
      @molliestanton2869 Год назад +2

      @@rillikinmcspliffelkinney3811 it's a necessary side--and missing in too many places.

  • @chairde
    @chairde 3 года назад +6

    American exceptionalism is a European-born critique of the United States of America that the country sees its history as inherently different from that of other nations,[2] stemming from its emergence from the American Revolution, becoming what the political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called "the first new nation"[3] and developing a uniquely American ideology, "Americanism", based on liberty, equality before the law, individual responsibility, republicanism, representative democracy, and laissez-faire economics. This ideology itself is often referred to as "American exceptionalism."[4] Second is the idea that America has a unique mission to transform the world[according to whom?]. President Abraham Lincoln stated in the Gettysburg address (1863) during the American Civil War, in reference to the preservation of the United States itself, Americans have a duty to ensure, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Third is the sense that America's history and its mission give it a superiority over other nations.[citation needed]
    The theory of the exceptionalism of the U.S. has developed over time and can be traced to many sources. French political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was the first writer to describe the country as "exceptional" in 1831 and 1840.[5] The actual phrase "American exceptionalism" was originally coined by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1929 as a critique of a revisionist faction of American communists that argued that the American political climate was unique and made it an 'exception' to certain elements of Marxist theory.[6] U.S. president Ronald Reagan is often credited with having crystallized that ideology in recent decades.[6]
    Political scientist Eldon Eisenach argues that American exceptionalism in the 21st century has come under attack from the postmodern left as a reactionary myth: "The absence of shared purpose is ratified in the larger sphere of liberal-progressive public philosophy. [...] Beginning with the assumption of American exceptionalism as a reactionary myth".[7]

    • @robertnewell4054
      @robertnewell4054 3 года назад

      Is the lack of citation of Manifest Destiny an accidental oversight or it’s not factored in the equation?

    • @averagecitizen8491
      @averagecitizen8491 11 месяцев назад

      American Exceptionalism is alive and well. Unless you believe in the sickening ideologies of marxism progressivism socialism and communism. All have proven not to work. Individual liberties and responsibility not the collective

  • @devondevon4366
    @devondevon4366 3 года назад +23

    22:24 "not all historians will admit the things they tell you may not be true

    • @boazklachkin4177
      @boazklachkin4177 3 года назад

      including the sounds spouted by this prolific atonal composer of Operas containing disharmonious contrapuntal dissonance and tasteless staging.

    • @jamiebrown8435
      @jamiebrown8435 3 года назад

      @@boazklachkin4177 Cap'n Turbot vibes,..

    • @surreal6643
      @surreal6643 2 года назад

      He said that because he knows he was lying.

  • @maxwell4431
    @maxwell4431 2 года назад +8

    Brilliant man. what a career.

    • @31acruz
      @31acruz 6 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/bhyYaFvELaU/видео.html

  • @southsideschooloffinancial4059
    @southsideschooloffinancial4059 3 года назад +24

    I wonder how many people in the Filipino Assembly knew that America had fought against and committed genocide against the Philippines. While in the Philippines last year, I decided to ask random people if they where aware of the US vs. Philippines War. None had been aware that such a war ever existed. They seemed to know no history before WWII.

    • @gannibalof21st
      @gannibalof21st 3 года назад +10

      Whitewash history was commissioned all over the world during colonialism and present day imperialism. From personal experience, It'll be the elders that usually have more connection to the older history, and younger generation are propagandized globally.

  • @jimluebke3869
    @jimluebke3869 3 года назад +59

    Resistance didn't end the British Empire.
    Bankruptcy did.

    • @gfarrell80
      @gfarrell80 3 года назад +13

      Just like it will for the US Empire.

    • @jimluebke3869
      @jimluebke3869 3 года назад +5

      @@gfarrell80 It took a couple of world wars and complete domestic economic devastation to get the British down.
      If the wars get that bad these days, I'm not hopeful that the rest of the world will be in any shape to react, either to celebrate or mourn.

    • @abovethefog1016
      @abovethefog1016 3 года назад +7

      Ridicule ends all leaders, and all empires. The moment that pinpoints the fall of the British Empire can be pinpointed to the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956. London assumed Washington would back them for the sake of their Israeli alliance and to expose the muslim brotherhood nationalisation of the main strategic asset of the Empire (The Suez Canal). This islamic "attack" was a sort of English 9/11, and it was at the height of the Cold War with the Soviets. From this point forward, The Empire went into military and economic decline, eagerly assisted at every opportunity by a cohort of marxist infiltraitors in The House Of Commons and elsewhere through the Empire itself. The playbook was so successful marxists in the USA made similar infiltration over the following decades and this peaked in 2008 with the election of Obama...

    • @gfarrell80
      @gfarrell80 3 года назад +19

      @@abovethefog1016 British Empire falls in 1956? That is pretty optimistic. The torch of empire IMHO was handed off from the British to the Americans in 1918. Cracks were showing in the British Empire well before 1956. Heck, India went independent in 1947.

    • @jimluebke3869
      @jimluebke3869 3 года назад +1

      @@abovethefog1016 There was a Roman senator, whose name escapes me at the moment, who made a name for himself making sarcastic speeches at one or other of the Julian line of emperors, after it became illegal to directly criticize the Princeps.
      He was executed. For the life of me, I can't remember his name.

  • @kennylong7281
    @kennylong7281 2 года назад +2

    All land is held by violence, or threat of violence. Those who actually settle a land, and develop that land, to be prosperous, and be a good source of food and shelter to millions, have perhaps a better claim to that land!

  • @scottjoseph9578
    @scottjoseph9578 Год назад +2

    Howard: you wrote worthless twaddle.

  • @ferriveiro3101
    @ferriveiro3101 Год назад +4

    Professor Zinn, thank you. :'(
    I don't know how to describe what it means to me as someone who's country suffered a coup instigated by the CIA, to hear you speak so about US foreign policy, to know that there are people inside America who see and understand what is happening and are openly critical of their governments hostile actions towards other nations. Thank you Mr Zinn. 💚🤍❤️

  • @brianwheeldon4643
    @brianwheeldon4643 3 года назад +6

    It sounds as though Howard is talking about New Zealand. I've found the lack of honesty of the population of a place is primarily caused by a great insecurity and inferiority complex. This was Aotearoa New Zealand and to a large extent is still present but morphing to something else. I would go further in that the morphing process involves much of Aotearoa's population burying their heads (deep) in the sand. It's now preventing the country from taking practical steps to address the climate chaos and ecosystem collapse in New Zealand. btw check out "How to Hide An Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr for background reading on all Howard talks about. Thank you Howard Zinn a valuable talk

    • @Patriot11111
      @Patriot11111 3 года назад +3

      global cooling?
      global warming?
      climate change?
      now climate chaos?
      what hoax is next?

    • @Patriot11111
      @Patriot11111 3 года назад

      @@SEAQUEST-R
      good
      hope it stays there

    • @ranter7100
      @ranter7100 3 года назад +1

      Right on the money about New Zealanders they have about as much idea as alot of Trump / Biden supporters or half the population of America.
      I am one by the way been one for 60 years.
      "I've found the lack of honesty of the population of a place is primarily caused by a great insecurity and inferiority complex." We may separate here i feel.
      You could just as easily say "I've found the lack of honesty of the population of a place is primarily caused by............ ignorant blind flag waving patriotism.