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Harold J. Laski: “Nevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.”

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Nevertheless, economic security is not liberty though it is a condition without which liberty is never effective.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski distinguishes between economic security and liberty, asserting that the former is essential for the latter to be meaningful.

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