Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest {sometimes exploding, often repressed} between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.
( Howard Zinn )
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