The Collected Works of Harold Laski

by Harold J. Laski, Paul Q. Hirst

This set comprises ten works spanning Laski's eminent career as a political thinker. Chairman of the Labour Party in 1945, Laski was one of the major political philosophers of the Twentieth Century Left.
Amongst the key works included in this set are Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917) and Authority in the Modern State (1919) which expand Laski's pluralist doctrine of the State. Communism (1927) argues against the concept of a Western Communist revolution.
After the defeat of Labour in 1931 and the onset of the Slump, Laski rejected pluralism in favour of Marxist theory and promoted the cause of a workers democracy. These arguments are explored in Democracy in Crisis (1933) and Reflections on the Constitution (1951) and other of Laski's works contained in this authoritative collection.

3320 pages, Hardcover

First published July 22, 1997

About the author

Harold Joseph Laski was a British Marxist, political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946, and was a professor at the LSE from 1926 to 1950.