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Passionate declaration Howard Zinn chapter 7, 8, 9 Chapter 10-11 Summary response, making connection current events, school life.
Zinn's Passionate declaration
Howard Zinn's text Passionate Declarations seems particularly important to read today, in light of what has been called the '99% movement.' This social justice movement is spearheaded by the numbers of many, many people who are striving to 'make ends meet' while others are fabulously wealthy and buy bracelets at Tiffanies. In one of Zinn's memorable examples, the author contrasts the cost of a luxury market watch with the income of an unemployed man who killed himself because he was unable to pay his bills (Zinn 151). Zinn does not deny the greatness of America and its ability to provide liberty and prosperity, but he is passionately outraged at the degree to which inequities have been allowed to fester. At a certain point, when the chasm between haves and have-nots becomes so great, any sense of possible 'equality' is lost. It is impossible for all but a lucky few to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Government interference in the...
Yet the Founding Fathers were profoundly fearful of the influence of factions upon the political landscape (Zinn 170). These factions include powerful corporate interests, such as tobacco companies, that are able to use their money to curtail the negative publicity attached to their deadly product. Without government regulation, we would still be living in the world of the unfettered capitalism of the 19th century, with its sweatshop labor and children toiling beside their parents simply to make money (Zinn 171). Today, of course, such labor still exists, although the workers are often illegal immigrants. And major corporations can still price the cost of labor artificially low, as is manifested in the example of Wal-Mart, which can price consumer goods very cheaply because it staffs its stores with low-wage earners, often part-time workers without benefits. Fast food corporations deploy a similar model of labor exploitation to keep goods extremely cheap, and to feed consumerism at the expense of fairness and compassion to workers. The market alone is…
Work Cited
Zinn, Howard. Passionate Declarations. HarperPerrenial, 2003.
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