The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski)

Download or read book The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski) written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1952, unfinished and perhaps imperfect, is the last book of one of the most acute political thinkers of the twentieth century. Laski’s earlier optimism about a swing to the Left was beginning to be reversed, and in this volume he saw the defects of his previous optimistic surveys, which, in his opinion, still had value, but needed to be brought up-to-date and consquently he began to write an additional chapter which was never completed. It remains a valuable last word of an author who for thirty years was respected and listened to on the topic of civilisation’s survial through change.