I’m not a fan of Howard Zinn. “Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist."” (From Wikipedia.). The quote about civil obedience was from a discussion where he was advocating for wealth redistribution in the socialist sense. A further quote reveals this: “I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth.”