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...decline since a year ago. The decline has prompted cries of foul from U.S. manufacturers over the competitive edge a weak currency gives Japanese products. But an equal concern is that an ever weaker yen will force devaluations throughout Asia, exacerbating trade tensions everywhere. Says Kenneth Courtis, Goldman Sachs Asia vice chairman: "It is now really important to get Japan back on track economically, because their problems are about to become ours...
Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...parallels the currents of the radical movement of her time. Filled with fury by the Haymarket Affair of 1886—in which the government arrested several suspects for a bomb attack at the Haymarket labor riots in Chicago with no substantive evidence beyond their union associations—Goldman found herself compelled towards pacifism, a “rethinking of the symbolic violence” that pervaded the era. Her inner strength helped lead to a new mission for anarchists as political organizers—a paradox, since those who oppose governments must frequently turn to them to accomplish...
...Goldman, as portrayed by Zinn, was more than a political revolutionary. She was a woman with a feel for life’s intensity, a fierce sense of individuality and nearly constant love interests. Her (now published) letters to Ben Reitman, “anarchist among anarchists,” are written in prose erotic and passionate, characterized by controlled ferocity and terror over the loss of independence that comes with devotion...
...Goldman wrote that “conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.” In Zinn’s mind, the notions of unity and “unconditional support” that Americans are presented with today are “scary and totalitarian.” Dissenters have always held a great appeal for Zinn in his writing, and in practice, he believes that dissent is critical to a well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments...