For the notion that, when the citizen has chosen his representatives for Parliament or his local authority, he can sit back in the comfortable knowledge that his wants are known, his interests safeguarded, has not one jot of evidence to support it.
Laski argues against the complacency of citizens believing their interests are automatically represented.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
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