An excerpt from Howard Zinn's powerful and still relevant 1968 book, Disobedience and Democracy.
“To take coronavirus seriously is to treat what is normally a perhaps abstract socialist ideal, that a society is only as strong as its most vulnerable members, as a matter of immediate epidemiological fact.”
A reading list dealing with the history and context of the labor and radical organizing of the 1930s. All of these books are currently 30% Off.
"...the train of developments that connects changes in social conditions to a changed consciousness is not simple. People, including ordinary people, harbor somewhere in their memories the building blocks of different and contradictory interpretations of what it is that is happening to them, of who should be blamed, and what can be done about it..."