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Butthe author on On Liberty hated the "bourgeois" mentality and culture of his day, which he found to be exceedingly oppressive. Mill was not a revolutionary socialist, quite unambiguously not. But he did think that if the progressof humankind continued, workers would cease to be willing to labor for wages and would insist on amanging their own enterprises, and that these would be efficient enough to beat out the capitalist enterprises. (I have a draft paper call Where Did Mill Go Wrong that addresses why this latter hasn't happened.) --jks

In a message dated Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:44:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< I think that Mill was not much of a lefty at all.  I know Justin will
disagree with me.  You can find similar "leftish" sentiments on Marshall.

Most of the British political economists, from Smith on, expressed a wish
that the working class would become bourgeois -- with the appropriate mix
of culture, deference ....  That mental change constituted their vision of
"leftisim".
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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