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Harold J. Laski: “A philosophy of politics that is to work must find a full place in the state for organized workers to whom freedom in…”

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A philosophy of politics that is to work must find a full place in the state for organized workers to whom freedom in the industrial sphere is, in its fullest implications, as urgent and as imperative as freedom in the sphere of politics or religion.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski advocates for the inclusion of organized workers' rights in political philosophy.

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