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Harold J. Laski (1893-1950) was an English political scientist and Labour party leader. Active as a teacher and political theorist, he was also one of the leading writers on democratic socialism.Harol...
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In the following essay, Beard reviews Laski's The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays.
Mr. Laski has brought together eight essays written on divers occasions and has prefaced them by a...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1953, Carr profiles Laski's correspondence with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Judge of the American Supreme Cour...
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In the following excerpt, Deane explores Laski's changing views on the state and the legitimacy of its political power.
Laski's earliest political writings are a constant polemic against...
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In the following excerpt, Morgenthau takes a critical look at Laski's shift from liberalism to socialism.
The decline of the political philosophy of liberalism is due to the defects of its gene...
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In the following essay, Peretz evaluates Laski's relevance to America in the 1960s.
It is now more than fifteen years since Harold J. Laski died, and it is almost as if whatever favourable word...
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In the following essay, Gorni discusses Laski's attitude toward his own Jewishness, and toward the cause of Zionism.
Since the early days of European socialism, the attitude of left-wing Jewish...
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In the following essay, Greenleaf examines the development of Laski's socialist ideas.
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It is just over a quarter of a century now since Harold Laski died. His writings have since received a c...
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In the following essay, Ekirch assesses Laski 's impact on American politics, in part through his relations with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other prominent Americans.
A generation aft...
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In the following essay, Hunt offers a critical look at Laski's pro-Soviet writings, particularly an essay in The Danger of Being a Gentleman.
Browsing through an old bookshop in South London re...
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In the following excerpt, Kramnick and Sheerman recount events that occurred in the decades following Laski's death and evaluate his overall influence.
'No one can teach politics who doe...
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In the following essay, Newman offers a late twentieth-century analysis of Laski's ideas and works.
Harold Laski (1893-1950) was perhaps the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. As a p...
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In the following essay, Elliott evaluates theories of the state and government in Laski's early writings.
In all the varied current of contemporary political theory which seems to have set agai...
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In the following essay, MacKenzie reviews Laski's A Grammar of Politics.
Those who are acquainted with previous writings on political subjects by Mr. Laski will expect much from his new book [A...
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In the following essay, Niebuhr reviews Laski's The State in Theory and Practice.
No contemporary political scientist has analyzed the problems of sovereignty and the state with greater clarity...
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In the following essay, Zerby distinguishes between Laski's statements about existing political conditions, and his views of the ideal society.
Laski has been and remains one of the most erudit...
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In the following essay, Wright reviews The American Democracy.
On the jacket of Professor Laski's book [The American Democracy: A Commentary and an Interpretation] the publishers have printed t...
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In the following essay, Hawkins takes a critical look at Laski's Marxism, and the ways this ideology affected his interpretation of the world.
To all who are concerned with the scope and functi...
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In the following essay, Soltau examines the foundations of Laski's political thinking, and the applications of his philosophy to various realms of political life.)
This is not, and cannot be, a...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1953, Wilson offers an overview of the correspondence between Laski and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The correspondence between Justice Holmes and...
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Harold J. Laski
Critical Essay by Charles A. Beard
