Abstract
There was an obvious autobiographical reference in Harold Laski’s generalisation, and great insight into his character and thought can be derived from an understanding of his background, and his reaction to it.
Often enough, a man’s political creed is born, not of an economic situation, but of an intense psychological dislike for the atmo-sphere of his family.1
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H. Laski, Communism (Williams and Northgate, 1927) [hereafter Com-munism] p 79.
I am grateful to Bill Williams (author of The Making of Manchester Jewry, 1740–1875 (Manchester University Press, 1985) for this, and for much of the information on the Laski family.
Sarah Laski, Some Impressions of a Trip to India (J. Cornish, Manchester, 1905 ).
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Newman, M. (1993). Divided Loyalties. In: Harold Laski. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376847_1
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