Marilyn Young

Overview

Marilyn Young (née Blatt) born Brooklyn, NY April 25, 1937 (d. 2017). History professor; anti-war feminist; critic of perpetual war and US imperialism; opposed wars in Vietnam, Iraq; co-founded Historians Against the War, 2003.

Quotations

“We must work for peace. The best brains in the country do nothing but prepare for war.” (c. 1955, in Jacobin, Feb. 24, 2017)

“Over time, this progression of wars has looked to me less like a progression than a continuation: as if between one war and the next, the country was on hold. . . it is certainly our work to speak and write so that a time of war not be mistaken for peacetime, nor waging war for making peace.” (“I was thinking, as I often do these days, of war”, Diplomatic History, Jan. 19, 2012; photo NYU History)