[Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air recommendation on class and the importance of historian Howard Zinn

[J.B. Nicholson]

Karen Aram wrote:
> I liked Carl’s statement related to the NYT article making the point “both Trump 
> and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.”
> 
> It’s too bad Americans don’t recognize “class,” as the great divide recognizing 
> the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of 
> neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have 
> set us up.
If you'd like to hear more on this, consider the following discussion on the 
importance of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) with Ray Suarez who has a new book out, 
"Conversations about A People's History: Truth Has a Power of Its Own". You've 
probably seen Suarez on PBS' "NewsHour" program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7KHRb2dxkY (28m23s) is the latest "On Contact" with 
Chris Hedges where Hedges interviews Ray Suarez about class and "A People's History 
of the USA" by Howard Zinn. Here's an excerpt from the opener:

> Ray Suarez: It's one of the reasons why we've never had a successful class-based 
> politics in this country because people cling to other master statuses as the way 
> of to think of themselves rather than a person who shares an economic state of 
> being with someone very much unlike them but they both face the same oppression. 
> Zinn: this is a popular theme and since writing he returns to it again and again;
> an economic analysis class location but also this terrible story of how working 
> people become each other's enemies.

-J