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arrington, the most eminent social critic, activist and socialist in this country,
examines the theory and practice of American economic policy, the history and
strttcture of imperialism, the problem of global hunger--and brings statistics
alive with personal observations and feelings just as he entered them into the
journals he kept as he traveled in the Third World or met some leaders there and
at the United Nations. Harrington speaks to the American heart as well as its
mind in this important study, which might be called "passionately objective ":
"We the people of America are, in our cruel innocence, at the very center of
the system; we, the most decisive power in the world, must change from within
too. We could, if we wanted to. If we do not, that will not signify a tragedy. It
will be a crime against billions of men, women and children, including hundreds
of millions of the halt, the blind and the maimed." The book concludes with
some positive proposals for the alleviation of the miseries of the vast majority,
as recorded ill this lucid and eloquent report.
Michael Harrington is the distinguished author of The Other America, a
classic work on poverty in the United States, The Accidental Century and The
Twilight of Capitalism. An activist in social movements for more than twenty-
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The Vast Majority: A Journey to the Worlds Poor 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024