Articles in this section

• Gabriel Kolko

  Gabriel Kolko’s Unfinished Revolution – On the role that the state and its legal system played in the very making of modern capitalism

  25 June 2014, by COOK Eli

  Kolko reshaped the way we think about how the state protects and advances capitalist interests.
  Gabriel Kolko, historian and socialist, died last month in his home in Amsterdam. He was 81.
  When Kolko’s The Triumph of Conservatism appeared on the scene in 1963, it was not only a book of (…)

• Gabriel Kolko

  Marxism survives Kolko’s attack

  20 March 2007, by HEARSE Phil

  Phil Hearse reviews Gabriel Kolko’s After Socialism - Reconstructing Critical Social Thought, Routledge, 2006.
  Radical critics of United States imperialism owe Gabriel Kolko a considerable debt. Of the ‘revisionist’ historians that emerged in the North America in the second half of the 20^th (…)

• Gabriel Kolko

  Gabriel Kolko’s “After Socialism”

  25 December 2006, by Louis Proyect

  (Second in a series of posts on “Does Socialism Have a Future?”)
  Gabriel Kolko’s “After Socialism” is a bitter diatribe against socialism drawn from ideas that were at one time much more fashionable among liberal intellectuals. In his acknowledgements, he singles out Bertrand Russell, Charles (…)