ZV: Do you think that a change can be achieved through institutionalized party politics, or only through alternative means – with disobedience, building parallel frameworks, establishing alternative media, etc. This is something anarchist theory has not worked out and maybe cannot possibly work out in advance, because it would have to work itself out in practice. You cannot have self-sufficient little collectives, because these collectives have different resources available to them. None of that! Of collectives of different sizes, depending on the function of the collective, having contacts with one another. Without any kind of borders, passports, visas. But not organized as nations, but people organized as groups, as collectives, without national and any kind of boundaries. ZV: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon once wrote that: “Freedom is the mother, not the daughter of order.” Where do you see life after or beyond (nation) states?īeyond the nation states? (laughter) I think what lies beyond the nation states is a world without national boundaries, but also with people organized. In other words to use globalization – it is nothing wrong with idea of globalization – in a way that bypasses national boundaries and of course that there is not involved corporate control of the economic decisions that are made about people all over the world. In a certain sense the movement towards globalization where capitalists are trying to leap over nation state barriers, creates a kind of opportunity for movement to ignore national barriers, and to bring people together globally, across national lines in opposition to globalization of capital, to create globalization of people, opposed to traditional notion of globalization. I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. Many on the Left are now caught between a “dilemma” – either to work to reinforce the sovereignty of nation-states as a defensive barrier against the control of foreign and global capital or to strive towards a non-national alternative to the present form of globalization and that is equally global. Ziga Vodovnik: From the 1980s onwards we are witnessing the process of economic globalization getting stronger day after day.
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Beloved radical historian is still lecturing across the US and around the world, and is, with active participation and support of various progressive social movements continuing his struggle for free and just society. Zinn’s most recent book is entitled A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, and is a fascinating collection of essays that Zinn wrote in the last couple of years. Zinn is the author of more than 20 books, including A People’s History of the United Statesthat is “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories…” ( Library Journal) Later he was appointed as a chairman of the department of history and social sciences at Spelman College, an all-black women’s college in Atlanta, GA, where he actively participated in the Civil Rights Movement.įrom the onset of the Vietnam War he was active within the emerging anti-war movement, and in the following years only stepped up his involvement in movements aspiring towards another, better world. It also revealed, once again, the real face of the socio-economic order, where the suffering and sacrifice of the ordinary people is always used only to higher the profits of the privileged few.Īlthough Zinn spent his youthful years helping his parents support the family by working in the shipyards, he started with studies at Columbia University after WWII, where he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1958. This proved to be a formative experience that only strengthened his convictions that there is no such thing as a just war. During World War II he joined US Air Force and served as a bombardier in the “European Theatre”.
He realized early in his youth that the promise of the “American Dream“, that will come true to all hard-working and diligent people, is just that – a promise and a dream. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor immigrant family. Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University.
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