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Matt Stoller
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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
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2019
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8 editions
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Left Elsewhere
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published
2019
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3 editions
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“To choose wisely, we must unlearn much of the history we have been taught. Many of us learned a version of our history as one of inevitable progress, goodness, and triumph. Many of us learned the inverted version, that our history is one of inevitable sin, racism, conquest, greed. Neither of these is true, because both versions airbrush out our own free will. The truth is, America is a battle, a struggle for justice. And we choose, every generation, who wins.”
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
“In 1860, an oligarchy of eight thousand men ruled over millions of enslaved blacks, and poor whites, in the South.22 The wealthiest men in the country were cotton kings; half the millionaires in 1850 lived in one town in Mississippi.23 Slave cotton was at the center of a global financial and trading system, one stretching from Mississippi to Wall Street to the looms in Manchester across the sea.”
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
“Virtually the entire commercial order of late-nineteenth-century America was oriented around small and midsized proprietorships, from independent farmers to drugmakers, pharmacists, printers, stationers, booksellers, manufacturers, specialty producers of brand-name foodstuffs, grocers, and distillers.”
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
― Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
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