Overnight Open Thread: Howard Zinn, Author of the 'People's History' of the U.S., Dies at 87

Howard Zinn, the progressive Marxist historian, has died at the age of 87. Some choice quotes:

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

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.

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Your thoughts?