The People's History & the Cold War

[alice wellintown]

Ziga Vodovnik: Where do you see the main inspiration of contemporary
anarchism in the United States? What is your opinion about the
Transcendentalism -- i.e., Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph W. Emerson, Walt
Whitman, Margaret Fuller, et al. -- as an inspiration in this
perspective?

Howard Zinn: Well, the Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early
form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves
anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in
their literature. In many ways Herman Melville shows some of those
anarchist ideas. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say
that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of
skepticism towards authority, towards government.


http://www.alternet.org/news/85427/?page=3

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:30 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: the story of Herman Melville and
> the World We Live in.
>
> Cyril Lionel Robert James
>
> Some stuff on Typee in there.