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Harold J. Laski: “I advocate that supremacy as the sole way with which I am acquainted to set the great fact of nationalism in its proper…”

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I advocate that supremacy as the sole way with which I am acquainted to set the great fact of nationalism in its proper perspective.
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Harold J. Laski

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This quote expresses Laski's belief that the supremacy of international authority is necessary to properly contextualize nationalism.

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