Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. He first promoted pluralism by emphasising the importance of local voluntary communities such as trade unions. After 1930, he began to emphasize the need for a workers' revolution, which he hinted might be violent. Laski's position angered Labour leaders who promised a nonviolent democratic transformation. Laski's position on democracy-threatening violence came under further attack from Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1945 UK general election, and the Labour Party had to disavow Laski, its own chairman. (From Wikipedia) More about Harold J. Laski:
| | Books by Harold J. Laski: Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Authority in the Modern State (PDF at McMaster) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: A Grammar of Politics (4th edition, 8th impression, 1941) (page images in India; NO US ACCESS) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Karl Marx (HTML at McMaster) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Karl Marx: An Essay (London: Fabian Society and Allen and Unwin Ltd., n.d.) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Karl Marx: An Essay (London: Fabian Society and Allen and Unwin Ltd., reprinted 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1920) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The Rights of Man (c1940) (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (New Haven: Yale University Press, et al., 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Additional books by Harold J. Laski in the extended shelves: Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Administrative areas, The problem of. (Dept. of history of Smith college, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Authority in the modern state (Yale University Press, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Autobiography (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1924), also by John Stuart Mill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Collected legal papers (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), also by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Communism. (H. Holt and Co.;, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Communism (Williams & Norgate ;, 1927), also by Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: A defence of liberty against tyrants; a translation of the Vindiciae contra tyrannos (G. Bell, 1924), also by Hubert Languet and Philippe de Mornay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The development of the representative system in our times. (Payot & cie, 1928), also by Inter-parliamentary Union, Moritz J. Bonn, Gaetano Mosca, Ferdinand Larnaude, and Charles Borgeaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The early history of the corporation in England (Harvard Law Review Association, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: English democratic ideas in the seventeenth century (The University press, 1954), also by G. P. Gooch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The foundations of sovereignty and other essays. (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Government of the people : a study in the American political system (Harper & Bros., 1933), also by D. W. Brogan (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: A grammar of politics (Yale university press, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The guildhouse, a co-operative centre for adult education (The British institute of adult education, 1924), also by British Institute of Adult Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Law in the modern state (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1921), also by Léon Duguit and Frida Laski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Letters of Edmund Burke; a selection (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1922), also by Edmund Burke (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Political thought in England : from Locke to Bentham (Henry Holt and Company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham (Williams & Norgate [], 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham, London. (T. Butterworth, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Socialism and freedom (Pub. and sold by the Fabian society, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The statesman; an ironical treatise on the art of succeeding. (W. Heffer and sons limited, 1927), also by Henry Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Studies in the problem of sovereignty (Yale University Press, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: Studies in the problem of sovereignty (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1917) (page images at HathiTrust) Laski, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1893-1950: The theory of popular sovereignty. ([Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
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