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Harold J. Laski: Its values will be so distorted, its apparatus for magnifying that distortion so complete, that it is blinded to the…

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Its values will be so distorted, its apparatus for magnifying that distortion so complete, that it is blinded to the realities which confront it.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski discusses how societal values can become distorted, obscuring reality.

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