Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time

Harold J. Laski saw World War Two as a period of revolutionary change as profound as any in modern history. In his view, the period's inner nature was as significant in its essentials as those which saw the fall of the Roman Empire; the birth in the Reformation of capitalist society; or, as in 1789, the final chapter in the dramatic rise of the middle class to power. All of these were not revolutions made by thinkers, but of ordinary people who shaped the large outlines of the...
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Harold J. Laski saw World War Two as a period of revolutionary change as profound as any in modern history. In his view, the period's inner nature was as significant in its essentials as those which saw the fall of the Roman Empire; the birth in the Reformation of capitalist society; or, as in 1789, the final chapter in the dramatic rise of the middle class to power. All of these were not revolutions made by thinkers, but of ordinary people who shaped the large outlines of the direction of these changes.