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Each seems to me an attack upon a corporate experience which is wrong because it does not persuade those who share that experience to abandon its implications.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Each seems to me an attack upon a corporate experience which is wrong because it does not persuade those who share that…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski argues that both the Partition of Poland and the suppression of a Communist Party are wrong because they disregard the experiences of those affected.
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