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Harold Laski

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Harold Laski · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

When

1893, Manchester, United Kingdom — 1950, London, United Kingdom

Where

United Kingdom · United States

Biography

Harold Laski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

How & why

Harold Laski was a political theorist, economist and influential teacher at the London School of Economics, and a leading intellectual of the British Labour Party, which he chaired in 1945–46. His pluralist and later Marxist theories of the state shaped mid-century political thought. He came from a prominent Manchester Jewish family and was active in Jewish and Zionist affairs.

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Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century

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