Harold J. Laski: “That it cannot in any circumstances be justified I am not prepared to…”

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That it cannot in any circumstances be justified I am not prepared to say until I know the circumstances of some given case.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski states that he cannot categorically justify a general strike without understanding the specific circumstances.

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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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Harold J. Laski: “That it cannot in any circumstances be justified I am not prepared to say until I know the circumstances of some given…”