re: Should I read Howard Zinn’s “ people’s history of the United States”?

Zinn's interpretation of history is intentionally biased, and he is upfront about his perspective being informed by Marxist ideology. He focuses on the struggle between different social classes and believes that marginalized groups have been systematically oppressed by powerful elites throughout American history. Rather than striving for objectivity, Zinn presents a deliberately partial perspective that seeks to illuminate the experiences and struggles of these marginalized groups. As Zinn himself acknowledges in the introduction of the book...

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I prefer to try to tell their [the oppressed] story with as little subjective distortion as possible, but with my own ideology: not neutrality, but the will to power of the subjugated.

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