Abstract

He Shall Not Be Moved

The article focuses on the book "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," by Howard Zinn. The deepening disappointment in American liberal leaders marks a deep-textual frustration inevitable in the book. Zinn offsets the mood with other hopeful and even funny moments. Zinn closes his volume with an epilogue, "The Possibility of Hope," in which he insists that small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. The thought seems rather too pious at a moment in which we require a drastic shift of the radical paradigm just to keep up with the multiple human and environ mental calamities ahead. "If You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" seems sometimes less than Zinn's best, it is because he has too much modesty to construct a world view out of his own experiences.