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The effort to read the problem of India in the set terms of Marxism is rather an exercise in ingenuity than a serious intellectual contribution to socialist advance.

— Harold Laski

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Who does not know Tocqueville cannot understand liberalism. A case of unanswerable power could, I think, be made out for the view that he and Lord Acton were the essential liberals of the nineteenth century.

[L]iberalism has been, in the last four centuries, the outstanding doctrine of Western Civilisation.

The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation [1936 (1962)

The German-Soviet pact was...a shameless exhibition, on Stalin's part, of complete indifference to the fate of the working-class outside the Soviet Union: and the attack on Finland, like the absorption of the Baltic Republics, was an example of strategic imperialism.

Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (1943)

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