Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-three years ago the Harvard Lampoon turned against Laski one of the most violent attacks ever directed against a faculty member in America. However much that first experience formed his views of the U.S., Harold Laski has not since then seen American life in brighter colors than black and red. This brilliant son of a leader of British Jewry, a socialist from his schooldays, with his radical views hardened by Oxford's snobbishness ("It was the first experience I had of the intensity of class division in England"), began his career writing editorials for Labor's Daily...
...Professor Laski is as much political tactician as prophet. He believes that with the war's end popular readiness for extreme measures and experiment will fade. But where conservatives see this as a return, at least in part, to the traditional freedoms of enterprise, with a release of creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval...
...margins of opportunity" -the expanding economy of a huge continent-"ended in 1919." The U.S., says Laski, began to take on many aspects of British life...
Freedom v. the State. After the war, says Professor Laski, counterrevolutionary big business will be too strong to be controlled by trustbusting. The simple system of natural liberty urged by those who demand a return to traditional individualistic business ceased to be workable almost a century...
...ownership of the means of production is not transferred from private to state hands, says Laski, Anglo-American union will mean only a strengthening "of Anglo-American imperialism...