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Re: From Your Friends at Dissent

"Zinn reduces
the past to a Manichean fable and makes no serious attempt to address the
biggest question a leftist can ask about U.S. history: why have most
Americans accepted the legitimacy of the capitalist republic in which they
live?"

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What's so daunting about that question? Don't most people accept the legitimacy of whatever social system they are socialized in, provided it is stable? Most Soviets considered the Soviet system to be legitimate. I presume that goes as well for past residents of monarchies and any other political system one might name.
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