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Cromwellian England, Revolutionary France, Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, each of these, of set purpose, made an end of the pretence that freedom was a justifiable object of desire.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Cromwellian England, Revolutionary France, Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, each of these, of set purpose, made an end…”
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Laski critiques historical examples of regimes that suppressed freedom under the guise of social organization.
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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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