A man may say that England or America will never be genuinely democratic unless equality of income is established there; that equality of income may never be established except by force; that, accordingly, the way to a genuine democracy lies through a bloody revolution.
Laski discusses the radical view that true democracy requires income equality, potentially through violent means.
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