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

“Indeed, one is struck reading Peter Lamb’s interesting and enlightening new book Harold Laski, the Reluctant Marxist: Socialist Democracy for a World in Turmoil by the sheer breadth and scope of Laski’s work and how, during the 1930s and 40s, he moved in a Marxist direction … . his book demonstrates how a scholar can be led to an ideological position by events, rather than temperament or desire. … Here Lamb provides a new way of seeing Laski historically.” (Matt Dawson, History of European Ideas, November 25, 2024)