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If freedom seeks to alter fundamentals, freedom must go; and freedom can hardly help but concentrate on fundamentals in a society distinguished by economic inequality.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that genuine freedom is often sacrificed in societies marked by economic inequality.
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