LIBERTY in the Modern State
LIBERTY in the Modern State

Author(s): Harold Laski
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: freedom in post-WW II time;
Summary/Abstract: This book was written in 1930. Since then, a second world war has been fought against the Fascist nations and their satellites. Alike in Europe and the Far East, it resulted in the unconditional surrender of the Fascists. Today, the rulers of society, again, begin to regard liberty with dislike. They know that people are no longer at ease, that they are doubtful about the wisdom of their governors, that they begin to listen to new voices, that they are likely to demand changes. What could be endured in an expanding economy as discomfort begins to make itself felt as grievance. Expectation grows that the government will remedy grievance. It may ask to do so; but it can succeed only if it discovers the way forward to new conditions of economic expansion. It may well fail to do so; and, if it fails, there are only two methods by which it may hope to maintain its authority. The one is internal repression, and the other is external war. - Neither, obviously enough, can, in its nature, be other than an attack upon liberty.(THIS DIGITIZED COPY IS MADE FROM THE 1949 POST-WAR-EDITION)

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