Gabriel Kolko Quotes

United States, Historian
August 17, 1932 – May, 19, 2014.

Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian and author. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and US foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he had also been credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire." U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism … [and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes.

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

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- Money
- American
- Mean
The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

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- Men
- Years
- Hands

The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.

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- People
- World
- Political
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of the 20th century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable...it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.

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