Posted on 11/19/2025 7:03:55 PM PST by Rummyfan
Howard Zinn’s infamous “A People’s History of the United States” is the great proto-text of today’s neo-antisemitism.
With the exception of Noam Chomsky, perhaps no intellectual has been more influential on today’s American neo-communists and radical progressives than Howard Zinn. The far-left academic, who died in 2010, literally wrote the book on the left’s revisionist history of the United States.
With his A People’s History of the United States, a bestseller thanks to generations of academics forcing their students to buy it, Zinn outlined a comprehensive vision of this history—likely drawn from Stalinist propaganda—that portrays the United States as a conspiratorial fraud got up by white racists and rapacious capitalists.
The conspirators, Zinn claims again and again over hundreds of pages, brutally exploit the American people, who are too duped or stupid to realize the truth of their plight. Thankfully, Zinn is there to enlighten them.
It is impossible to overestimate the power this vision exercises over today’s radical left. They have effectively adopted Zinn’s claims wholesale without the slightest question. Zinn’s influence is palpable in the tearing down of statues, demonization of the US as a racist and genocidal entity, and even “mainstream” efforts like the New York Times’ 1619 Project. If the radical left has a vision of what the US is, it is Zinn’s vision.
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A nation that has provided more prosperity to more people than any other in history... a nation that defeated Japanese militarism and National Socialism and Soviet Communism.... a nation that has give more freedom to more people than any other in history.... is an expression of evil?! Zinn is a manifestation of the devil.
That answer to this low life and his work is Larry Schweickart and his Patriots History books.
https://patriotshistoryusa.com/more-books/
I own the book and as a person with a historical mindset, it’s one of the most nonsensical books posing as history I’ve read. Which is saying a lot, because I’ve read many trash history books over the last 40+ years.
The violent punk/math genius in the movie “Good Will Hunting” liked it, but that dude didn’t have a clue about history.
An exceptional prodigy in certain academic fields, but a complete moron in studies beyond his comprehension.
A People’s History of the United States has the distinction of being the only book I’ve thrown away.
The rats got this evil prick’s text books shoved into schools all across our country and it fostered a generation of kids who hated their country especially girls.
I believe Schweikhart was a Freeper.
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Damon attended Harvard for two years before leaving for a film role, so he's a liberal Ivy League role model/p>
Zinn was hugely popular when I was a youngster. Homeschooled, I didn’t read any history textbook written before around 1970. Still haven’t gotten around to reading him.
Another regrettable author is Joy Hakim. Easily found in book stores, lots of glossy photos, but an “idiot’s guide” would be superior history. She’s a lefty and no serious historian.
“With the exception of Noam Chomsky, perhaps no intellectual has been more influential on today’s American neo-communists and radical progressives than Howard Zinn.”
While the schools that MY CHILDREN attend use Howard Zinn’s books and are turning my children into Communists, that’s ok, because they will NOT turn me into a Communist, and besides that, the schools are FREE, and that’s all that counts to me.
(typical GOP voter rationalization)
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