English political theorist and economist (1893–1950)
Harold Laski
Laski in 1936
Born
Harold Joseph Laski
(1893-06-30)30 June 1893
Manchester, England
Died
24 March 1950(1950-03-24) (aged 56)
London, England
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Frida Kerry
(m. 1911)
Academic background
Alma mater
University College London New College, Oxford
Influences
John Neville Figgis[1]
Otto von Gierke[1]
Frederic William Maitland[1]
John Lewis Paton[2]
Academic work
Discipline
Economics
history
political science
Sub-discipline
Political economy
political theory
School or tradition
Marxism
Institutions
London School of Economics
Doctoral students
W. G. K. Duncan
Ralph Miliband
Franz Neumann
Abdur Razzaq
Robin Gollan
Notable students
Leslie Goonewardene
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Jawaharlal Nehru
C. B. Macpherson
V. K. Krishna Menon
K. R. Narayanan
Pierre Trudeau
Jyoti Basu
Notable works
A Grammar of Politics (1925)
Influenced
Robert Dahl
Jawaharlal Nehru
Leo Strauss
Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. He first promoted pluralism by emphasising the importance of local voluntary communities such as trade unions. After 1930, he began to emphasize the need for a workers' revolution, which he hinted might be violent.[3] Laski's position angered Labour leaders who promised a nonviolent democratic transformation. Laski's position on democracy-threatening violence came under further attack from Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1945 general election, and the Labour Party had to disavow Laski, its own chairman.[4]
Laski was one of Britain's most influential intellectual spokesmen for Marxism in the interwar years.[citation needed] In particular, his teaching greatly inspired students, some of whom later became leaders of the newly independent nations in Asia and Africa. He was perhaps the most prominent intellectual in the Labour Party, especially for those on the hard left who shared his trust and hope in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.[5] However, he was distrusted by the moderate Labour politicians, who were in charge[citation needed] such as Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and he was never given a major government position or a peerage.
Born to a Jewish family, Laski was also a supporter of Zionism and supported the creation of a Jewish state.[6]
^ abcDeane, Herbert A. (2008). "Laski, Harold J.". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Thomson Gale. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
^Lamb, Peter (2014). "Laski's Political Philosophy Today: Socialism for an Individualist Age" (PDF). Retrieved 4 May 2019.
^Bill Jones (1977). The Russia Complex: The British Labour Party and the Soviet Union. Manchester University Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780719006968.
^Kenneth R. Hoover (2003). Economics As Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 164. ISBN 9780742531130.
^Michael R. Gordon (1969). Conflict and Consensus in Labour's Foreign Policy, 1914–1965. Stanford UP. p. 157. ISBN 9780804706865.
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