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Harold J. Laski: “I cannot believe that a man no longer master of himself is in any meaning sense free.”

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I cannot believe that a man no longer master of himself is in any meaning sense free.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that true freedom requires self-mastery and autonomy.

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