This timeless classic by Harold J. Laski explains the nature of
the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by
its history. "The State in Theory and Practice" is a work that
grows in significance, rather than dwindles over time. This is
because, as Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. points out, Laski helped develop
and expound the foundational arguments of the political left.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, even on the hard left,
few people thought of Marxism, at least in its classical
formulation by Laski in the 1930s, as a political alternative. Much
of the interest in Laski seeks to separate the early Laski of
pluralist parliamentary arguments from the later Laski of Marxism.
Laski's appeal rests on subtle aspects of his science of politics
that require a detailed examination before their full significance
can be understood. The state is a work that operates at several
layers of assumptions and implications.
The significance of Laski starts with the observation that
among many intellectuals on the left, the political critique of
liberal democracy remains as influential after the collapse of the
Soviet Union as it was when Laski wrote. The leftist critique of
classical liberalism is one of the touchstones of modern political
thought and Laski remains part of that tradition. Laski is one of
the links between what might be called the "old left" of the
pre-World War II era and the "new left" of the 1960's and
later.
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