http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/10/from-columbus-and-western-civilization-howard-zinn/ Benjamin Whitmer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/10/from-columbus-and-western-civilization-howard-zinn/comment-page-1/#comment-1435 Ben Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:23:37 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1078#comment-1435 Thanks, Daisy. Thanks, Daisy.

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/10/from-columbus-and-western-civilization-howard-zinn/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Daisy Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:29:19 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1078#comment-1433 Two quotes from Prof. Zinn's article: "Why this great controversy today about Columbus and the celebration of the quincentennial? Why the indignation of native Americans and others about the glorification of that conqueror? Why the heated defense of Columbus by others? The intensity of the debate can only be because it is not about 1492, it is about 1992." 'They, who claim to believe in "free markets" do not believe in a free marketplace of ideas, any more than they believe in a free marketplace of goods and services. In both material goods and in ideas, they want the market dominated by those who have always held power and wealth. They worry that if new ideas enter the marketplace, people may begin to rethink the social arrangements that have given us so much sufferings, so much violence, so much war these last five hundred years of "civilization."' Two quotes from Prof. Zinn’s article:
“Why this great controversy today about Columbus and the celebration of the quincentennial? Why the indignation of native Americans and others about the glorification of that conqueror? Why the heated defense of Columbus by others? The intensity of the debate can only be because it is not about 1492, it is about 1992.”
‘They, who claim to believe in “free markets” do not believe in a free marketplace of ideas, any more than they believe in a free marketplace of goods and services. In both material goods and in ideas, they want the market dominated by those who have always held power and wealth. They worry that if new ideas enter the marketplace, people may begin to rethink the social arrangements that have given us so much sufferings, so much violence, so much war these last five hundred years of “civilization.”‘

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