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...LASKI has steadfastly refused to accept the label of "Marxist," but it is doubtful if anyone, with the permissible exception of John Strachey, has yet written a more brilliant defense of the general Communist position. Though on matters of dialectic and detail, he differs noticeably from the orthodoxies of the Third International, his basic convictions are unmistakably Red. For this reason it is not too likely that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel...
...Socialism--has grown to such proportions that the inevitable struggle cannot long be postponed. The third is that this struggle admits of no compromise, for history and all current signs indicate that the ruling class has no intention whatever of abdicating gracefully from its seat of power. As Mr. Laski states regretfully in his Preface: "I am aware that my argument is a pessimistic one, . . . but the obligation to follow the compulsion of the facts is inescapable." It was hard for the author, as one can readily believe from his earlier writings, to come to the decision that parliamentary institutions...
...Alpha and Omega of modern economic theory to readers of the March issue. The between cover and above-board fight between the article entitled "The Technocratic Terror," by T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, and the essay "Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees...
...great French historian and radical Mathiez once said to Harold Laski, a Communist member of the Harvard faculty, 'You sympathize with liberalism. Why do you stay in such a capitalistic hole as Harvard? Why don't you go West, where the colleges are really liberal?' The opinion of Mathiez, who had never been outside of France, is hardly supported by the insistence of Harvard's faculty on academic freedom. Of course it is impossible to conceive of a professional agitator on the faculty of any college. One can't expect an institution founded by capitalists on a capitalistic order...
According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice. He has seen that, in any society, it is merely the will that has known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community...