Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist: Socialist Democracy for a World in Turmoil

Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	Laski Before the 1930s
	Laski in the 1930s and 1940s
	Laski and Marxism
	References
2 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Laski’s Thought
	Pluralism—Radical and Modified
	Communism in Russia
	The Rise of Fascism
	The General Strike and the 1931 Crisis in the United Kingdom
	Nazism
	Spain, France and the United States
	Italian and Japanese Imperialism
	References
3 Marxist Foundations
	Being a Marxist
	History, Structure and Praxis
	Class Analysis, Historical Trajectory and Emancipation
	References
4 Intellectual and Socio-Political Aspects of Laski’s Marxism
	A Socialist, Not a Marxist, by Instinct
	Laski as a Marxist Intellectual
	Marxism in Laski’s Political Activism
	References
5 Laski’s Class Analysis of Capitalist Democracy
	The Liberal Theory of the State
	Class-Based Limitations on Democracy
	The State and Sovereignty
	Marxism and Law
	References
6 Laski on Democracy and Revolution in the Historical Trajectory
	The State: Real and Ideal
	Progressing from Liberalism
	Laski and the Materialist Conception of History
	The Problem of Fascism and How to Overcome It
	Revolution by Consent
	References
7 Laski on Liberty and Emancipation
	Freedom in Laski’s Thought
	Contingent Anarchy
	Freedom and Emancipation
	References
8 Conclusion: Why Read Laski Today?
	Structural Neo-Marxism
	Neo-Marxism and Liberalism
	A Neo-Marxist Critique of Sovereignty
	Laski’s Continuing Significance
	References
Index