My Country Is the World
Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War
- 600 pages
- English
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My Country Is the World
Staughton Lynd's Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War
About this book
Staughton Lynd was one of the principal intellectuals and activists making the radical argument that the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was illegal under domestic and international law. Lynd was uncompromising in his courageous stance that the U.S. should immediately withdraw from Vietnam, and that soldiers and draftees should refuse to participate in the war based on their individual conscience and the Nuremberg Principles of 1950. Lynd did not just write about opposing the war, he was one of the chief proponents of direct action and civil disobedience to confront the war machine at the university, in the halls of power, and in everyday life through refusing to pay income taxes. As Staughton Lynd's speeches, writings, statements and interviews demonstrate, there were coherent and persuasive arguments against the war in Vietnam based on U.S. and international law, precedents from American history, and moral and ethical considerations based on conscientious objection to war and an internationalism embraced by American radicals which said: "My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword by Staughton and Alice LYND
- Introduction
- 1. Declarations of Conscience
- 2. We Are Not at War with the People of Vietnam
- 3. To Hanoi and Back
- 4. What Would Victory Be?
- 5. Treason?
- 6. What Is Resistance?
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Selective Service System Draft Classifications
- Appendix B: Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on the Problem of Restoring Peace in Indo-China, 21 July 1954
- Appendix C: The Five-Point Program of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
- Appendix D: The Democratic Republic of Vietnam’s Four Points, 8 April 1965
- Appendix E: Republic of [South] Viet Nam’s Four Points, 22 June 1965
- Appendix F: The United States’ Fourteen Points, 27 December 1965
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover