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The secret of avoiding general strikes does not lie in their prohibition but in the achievement of the conditions which render them unnecessary.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the importance of addressing the root causes of general strikes rather than simply prohibiting them.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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