ABSTRACT
More than any other English intellectual, Harold Laski has risen to the demands of England’s greatest crisis. He has not allowed the tyranny of past dogmas to betray him into opposing a war whose successful conclusion is a condition of any future democratic hope. Neither has he allowed his profound antifascism to betray him into accepting the war merely on the conditions of the British ruling class. Like other Labor Party intellectuals he has had to do his thinking, as also his fighting, on two fronts—facing the enemy of fascism abroad and the enemy of capitalist privilege at home. Every worker, like every other citizen, must be a soldier in a battle against barbarism. But the barbarians are inside the gates as well as outside. And to apply the techniques of militarism to the production of defense materials is to run a war in the fatally wrong way.
