Word: kolko
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Philip Berrigan argued that "men of conscience had to take a higher law into their own hands." Former Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening, 86, maintained that resisters "deserve an accolade"; but he would not comment on how Armstrong should be punished because his act "turned out rather tragically." Historian Gabriel Kolko of Toronto's York University insisted: "To condemn Karl Armstrong is to condemn a whole anguished generation. His intentions were more significant than the unanticipated consequences of his actions...
...good reasons-or at least for such good reasons as can be perceived under the pressures of war. But the evidence argues that it was a mistake, simply a choice of a lesser evil over a greater one, not so much moral wisdom as moral despair. Historian Gabriel Kolko suggests a political deficiency, calling the use of the Bomb and reliance on Russian intervention "a triumph of conservatism and mechanism" in U.S. policy. Whether the failing be moral or political, however, it remains the same-a lack of imagination, an unwillingness to risk a new tactic even...
Consensus historians have generally given high marks to the "Progressive Era" of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and to F.D.R.'s New Deal, for accomplishing significant reform within a democratic framework. The revisionists are not willing to concede so much. To Gabriel Kolko of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Progressive Era represented not the bridling of predatory big business by the Federal Government but rather the capture of Government by business. In The Triumph of Conservatism, Kolko argues that most Government regulation was enacted at the behest of leading corporations, which wanted railroad legislation, meat...
...than as a result of American efforts to continue a long process of economic expansion in the form of an "informal empire" (based on a form of free trade known as the "Open Door policy"). Other scholars, notably Gar Alperovitz, Barton J. Bernstein, Walter LeFeber, Thomas McCormick, and Gabriel Kolko have illustrated the workings of open-door expansion in specific cases. Fortunately, the dynamics of Soviet polities have been sufficiently explored by Deutscher, Moore, Marcuse, Shulman, and Ulam to show that NATO was based on an inflated myth and that Stalin actually sold out revolutionary movements outside the sphere...