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communist trash
>>70608040
No.
>>70608040
Chomsky > Zinn
Zinn has such a huge chip on his shoulder due to muh war crimes it's not even fucking funny.
Marxism applied to US history. Everything is viewed in the context of evil imperial whites oppressing poor noble browns.
Author is a Jew. No surprise
>>70608191
>>70608157
So you've read it? Doubt it.
>muh socialist revolution
>muh native American genocide
>muh CIA overthrow of Latin commies
>muh America is evil
>muh Sacco and Vanzetti dindu nuffin
>>70608191
You know, that's the funny part. I read this back in the 80s doing my phd in archaeology and... it's not marxist.
Good book. Don't take it - or anthing else - as absolute truth.
Definitely worth reading though
>>70608040
> history through the prism of post-modern deconstructionist theory
TLDR; version:
a long time ago in a land far far away, a bunch of evil white people did a bunch of evil things
repeat theme for ~ 700 pages
... and they are still just as evil today, white people should be exterminated
The End.
>>70608040
I've heard good things and kinda wanted to pick it up. Should I?
>>70609345
>>70609109
Does he make any mention of how the indigenous brown peoples conducted themselves before Whites arrived? Like how over half of them routinely died in warfare or whatever? Does he compare how the standard of living for them was back then to how it is now?
>>70609526
Yeah, there's a whole chapter on that.
>>70609526
Yeah he spends one chapter on that with focus, so far from sweeping it under the rug.
>>70609345
Oh bullshit. FFS you either didn't read it or it was so threatening you shut your brain down and didn't understand a word.
Honestly, some humans got very good at material technology very quick, and benefits, sure, good stuff.
But social technology, how to live together without a lot of conflict?
That's the hard question anon. Solve that if you want to be the hero of generations.
>>70608040
the ultimate cuck of a book on history
>>70608040
Decent book. It is no history text tho.
>>70608040
revisionist history by a kike. never read it but apparently it's not footnoted and reads like fiction. he has a list of books that he may or may not have used as references in the back of the book but it's not properly cited like a normal bibliography.
>>70609526
nope. nary a word.
he focusses on the perceived "evils" of whiteness, colonialism, manifest destiny, etc etc, and treats the native tribes like they were the fictional "Noble Savages" of 70's anthropological fantasy.
>>70609109
> Not marxist
nah, he never even talks about Marxism, he just goes on and on at EXCRUCIATING LENGTH about Marx....
pg 13:
In Peru, that other Spanish conquistador Pizarro, used the same tactics, and for the same
reasons-the frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of
the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of the expeditions, to finance the
monarchical bureaucracies rising in Western Eu
rope, to spur the growth of the new money
economy rising out of feudalism, to participate in what Karl Marx would later call "the primitive accumulation of capital." These were the violent beginnings of an intricate system of technology, business, politics, and culture that would dominate the world for the next five centuries.
Marxian "Theory" is the touchstone he uses fro analysis throughout this tawdry work.
a sample of his "analysis" from pg 317
" Labor struggles could make things better, but the country's resources remained in the hands of powerful corporations whose motive was profit, whose power commanded the government of the United States. There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages:
that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few"
yeah, not Marxist at all.
>>70610231
> bullshit! U dint reed it!! Ur R 2 Closed Minded 2 unnerstan muh wisdum!!
the entire book was a lengthy screed condemning the american experiment as evil
it's the kind of shit a shit might shit after a meal of indian food.
this book s DESIGNATED
>>70608040
too long
read it a few times and I still became a red pilled conservative by 18.
>>70611293
of course it's not footnoted. it is written as a propaganda tool, not as a scholarly treatise.
he glosses over every event, every conflict, every dynamic, and every personality in US history as he rushes to make his next sweeping condemnation of the US Capitalism, Western Culture, and White People in general.
Andy Jackson: He hated injuns!
Teddy Roosevelt: He Wuz Rayciss!!!
George Washington: He wuz rich, and racyciss!!!
Thomas Jefferson: He Wuz Rayciss, and Misginist!! and he had mullato kids (which is still a matter of some dispute)
it only gets weaker from there
every US war: Imperialism!
every US advancement: Built on the oppression of (insert special snowflake group here)
every american who wasnt a minority or a woman or a minority woman: EVIL!
