Howard Zinn 1996 - Failure to Quit - Reflections of an Optimistic Historian - Radio Free Maine

Radio Free Maine offers many other tapes for sale. Another recent one is a talk by Howard Zinn, teacher, historian, playwright and author of” A People’s History of the U.S.” Titled “Beyond Electoral Politics: Toward Social Change;” the talk was presented at MIT. Zinn’ s thesis is essentially this – Voting has its place, but much more important is political organizing and activism. Mass movement and mass actions do much more to move society in a progressive direction than voting for the lesser of various evils in an election. Some of the newer political movement – such as the New Party – have their positive aspects, Zinn says, but political achon is more important than elections.