Harold J. Laski: “The case, as elsewhere, merely affords proof that liberty and violence…”

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The case, as elsewhere, merely affords proof that liberty and violence are antithetic terms.

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Laski asserts that liberty and violence are fundamentally opposed to each other.

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Harold J. Laski: “The case, as elsewhere, merely affords proof that liberty and violence are antithetic terms.”