3-24-20 SUMMARY A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BY
HOWARD ZINN
RASA SAYS: MATRIARCHY IS THE ANSWER, IT SOLVES ALL OUR
PROBLEMS, WITH MOTHER GOD AS THE HEAD OF THE HUMAN RACE. TAKE OVER THE FAMILY & THE WORLD, &
99% OF ALL OPPRESSION WILL BE GONE. IT
IS HUMAN MALES WHO HAVE DONE THE DAMAGE –ONE THIRD ARE POSSESSED BY DEMONS
& THEY ARE RULING THE WORLD - THE GOOD GUYS ARE AFRAID OF THEM, PUT NO HOPE
ON GOOD GUYS TO TAKE OVER. ONLY WOMEN
WITH THE POWER OF MOTHER GOD CAN DO THIS.
the MESSAGE IS: Keep fighting against the oppressive demons—all
Patriarchal govt’s—or else they will turn us all into slaves like animals in
factory farms—use us up, work us to death, the way Simon LeGree used up his
slaves in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’………………………………………
the SUMMARY: In A People’s History of the United States, Zinn aims to write an account of American history
from the perspective of persecuted, powerless, marginalized people, rather than
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Christopher Columbus ’s conquest of the New World in 1492; over the following century, European explorers wiped out
entire Native American tribes and brought tremendous wealth back to their own
countries. English settlers came to North America in the
early 1600s, and soon afterwards, they were involved in a series of wars with
the Native American tribes, during which they used terrorist tactics to assert
their domination.
Another important feature of
early colonial life in North
America was slavery. English
settlers used slaves kidnapped from their homes in Africa
for free labor, and they also hired indentured servants—poor white people who
were forced to spend years paying off their debts. Slaves frequently staged
revolts and uprisings against their white masters; indeed, many elites in early
colonial America were frightened that black slaves would unite with
poor whites and take control over the colonies. Elites instituted policies
designed to drive poor whites, Native Americans, and black slaves apart, and
use them as “a check upon one another.”
In the late 18th century, the
Founding Fathers were responsible for organizing a revolution against the
British. However, these figures weren’t particularly radical in their vision of
the future—rather, they were wealthy, powerful people who saw an opportunity to
become even more powerful by manipulating the working classes against an
external enemy, Britain. It was during the Revolutionary War that American
leaders developed the rhetoric of freedom and equality, which is, to this day,
one of the most important tools that leaders use to control their people. In
the 1780s, the Founding Fathers drew up the Constitution, which provided for a
strong federal government, largely so that they would have a way of protecting
their own property and interests.
In the 18th and 19th
centuries, American women of all classes and backgrounds asserted their
radicalism again and again, in spite of the pervasive sexism of their society.
After it became more common for women to attend college in the early 19th
century, educated women became more active in feminist causes.
In the early 19th century,
America became a major imperialist power, first by expelling Native Americans
from their ancestral lands (violating treaties that the American government had
signed), and then by annexing Mexican territory in the Southwest. The
Mexican-American War of the 1840s set a paradigm for American militarism: again
and again, the American government would find a flimsy pretext for starting a
war, and then use this pretext to acquire new territory and resources.
The Civil War is often
remembered as the event that prompted the federal government to intervene and
end slavery forever. But in fact, the federal government only did so because it
had been pressured by generations of radical Americans who staged uprisings,
slave revolts, and exercised their right to petition the government. When the
government finally did free the slaves, it did so in a way that gave
African-Americans minimal support. Indeed, in the years following the Civil War
(the period known as Reconstruction) the federal government provided some
financial and military support for African-Americans in the South. However,
following 1876, the federal government backed away from supporting
African-Americans and instead aligned itself with the interests of Southern business
elites. In the second half of the 19th century, the federal government became
bolder about cooperating with business; indeed, it supported military
interventions, especially in Latin
America, that were designed
to strengthen American business. Nevertheless, there was widespread resistance
to America’s aggressive, imperialist foreign policy.
The
19th century was also a
time of widespread labor and union activity. Faced with the fact that
the law
and the government didn’t even pretend to protect the common American
worker,
laborers went on strike, protested in the streets, and demanded better
wages
and shorter hours. In response, the federal government again and again
showed
its support for the business establishment by deploying troops to break
up strikes
and enforcing business as usual. When the government did help the common
worker, it was careful to provide modest, superficial reforms to the
system,
which were designed to satisfy the American people without helping them
in any
profound way. In the face of the government’s dismissive attitude,
laborers
embraced Anarchism,
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capitalist premise that private business should own production and
manufacturing.
During World War One, the
American government sent its poorest citizens to die in a conflict that had
nothing to do with them. It also passed a series of laws preventing citizens
from speaking out against the war in any way. Indeed, many Socialist activists
of the era were imprisoned for daring to state the obvious—World War One was a
corrupt, imperialist conflict. During the Great Depression, the federal
government continued its policies of moderation and pacification: it passed
some policies that benefitted workers, but did nothing to fundamentally
challenge capitalism or the American business elite.
During World War Two, the U.S. claimed to be fighting for purely moral reasons: to
end Fascism in Europe. In fact, Zinn argues, the government fought in World
War Two because it saw the chance to make America the world’s leading power. By the time the war was
over, America had made inroads with leaders around the world, ensuring
that its own businesses would be granted free trade rights abroad. The war
ended when the American government detonated two atomic bombs in Japan that killed massive numbers of civilians, a decision
made largely to assert America’s new status as the world’s leading superpower.
During the Cold War—the
standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the world’s other leading
superpower—the U.S. government tried to frighten the American people by warning of a
global Communist takeover. The government funded coups and right-wing
dictatorships around the world, often deposing democratically-elected Socialist
leaders in the process, always with the claim of protecting democracy and
fighting Communism. In reality, the Establishment was trying to protect its own
business interests, ensuring that the world’s leaders would continue to
cooperate with American corporations.
During the 1960s, America experienced an outpouring of pent-up radical
frustration. The people fought for civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights,
environmental protection, Native American reparations, and hundreds of other
radical populist causes. In many cases, the government’s response to its
people’s actions was to institute tepid, superficial reforms that didn’t
address the root causes of the problem. For example, the government reformed
the voting process to protect African-Americans’ voting rights, but did nothing
about the systematic poverty and racism that many black people faced every day.
In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s,
radicalism seemed to die down in America. But in large part, this was because the media
stopped reporting on popular protests. Meanwhile, the American government,
despite shifting back and forth between Republican and Democratic leaders,
enforced a virtually consistent political agenda, in which welfare was cut back
and the military budget increased. Even after the end of the Cold War, America’s military budget continued to grow. Americans joined
together in record numbers to protest the meeting of the World Trade
Organization in Seattle in 1999, a sign that radicalism wasn’t dead in America.
In the final chapter of the
book, Zinn discusses the “war on terror,” during which the government deployed
troops to the Middle East, supposedly to fight Muslim terrorists. Zinn concludes
that, while it’s too soon to see what the American reaction to the war on
terror will be, the American people need to decide if they stand on the side of
morality and decency, or if they support imperialism and military aggression. end SUMMARY...............................
Lesson from Rasa Von
Werder: Keep fighting on all fronts –
animal rights, women’s rights, the rights of the poor, the marginalized, the
forgotten, the hated, the downtrodden – Fight for prostitutes, for instance –
let them do their trade the same as doctors, lawyers, social workers,
waitresses, dancers, actors, clerks, accountants – anyone. It is THERAPY WORK for adults the same as psychologists
& social workers.
The only difference is the brainwashed hatred
of those who are not in the business, against them. They become SCAPEGOATS for a hypocritical, judgmental,
hysterical, confused society which projects their own fears onto women who do
sex. Leave them alone; no legalization,
no herding into corrals, no licenses, no oppressive rules, leave them as you
would leave be a person in a farmer’s market selling tomatoes & cabbages. LEAVE THEM ALONE—STOP CALLING THEM NAMES!
And stop calling anyone bad
names! STOP HATING RATS! STOP CALLING MEN PIGS BECAUSE PIGS ARE NICE! The men we hate are not human, THEY ARE
DEMONICS, they have been taken over by demons so thoroughly there is no vestige
of human-ness in them—wake up to how evil Patriarchs are.
We need a Mother God, &
we need her back in our hearts, minds, & on altars in our homes. She needs to lead us, guide us back to
sanity. To work for Matriarchy is the umbrella
on all fronts – Matriarchy is the answer to all our problems.
WOMEN DO NOT NEED MEN.
God does not need men.
Animals do not need men.
Men do not need men.
Men are redundant,
unnecessary & dangerous.
We can do all the hard work
by ourselves, with the help of machines.
They no longer do it all by hand anyway.
Long ago we wanted them for
physical strength. No more.
Good bye men, you are going
extinct, no soon enough.
God, nature, the world, the
animals & women HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU.
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