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Reflecting on the thought of his recently deceased colleague at the LSE in 1950, Norman Mackenzie commented (1950, 39) that Laski had attempted throughout his life to solve the problem of who, since government is necessary, is to give orders to whom and on what terms. This was a statement that summarized Laski’s endeavors rather well. Central to Laski’s attempt to solve the problem was his analysis of sovereignty in theory and practice. The problems of power and sovereignty were, for him, closely linked to the entrenchment of the very limited system of democracy in capitalist societies.
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© 2004 Peter Lamb
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Lamb, P. (2004). State Sovereignty and Class Power. In: Harold Laski: Problems of Democracy, the Sovereign State, and International Society. The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978356_5
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