Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist: Socialist Democracy for a World in Turmoil

by Peter Lamb

This book examines Harold Laski's relationship to Marxism. Laski was a reluctant Marxist; he had been a pluralist, democratic socialist who wanted to reach a better society by means of parliamentary, constitutional and associational channels. In fact, he never abandoned these early aspirations. In the 1930s and 1940s he wove them into a distinctive Marxist position as he gradually came to believe that there was no answer to Marxist philosophy on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031657616
• ISBN13: 9783031657610
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 7.7"