<< > J.S. Mill's conversion in later life to socialism
> Jim Farmelant
I've always liked Marx's comment suggesting that Mill's coop socialism
attempted to 'reconcile irreconcilables'...
Thanks for the cite, I''s missed tgat one. As for the view it represents, I disagree, and I think Marx's won attack on market socialism is singularly unimpressive. I've argued this on various lists; if the archives for the old Marxism lists and thaxis still exist, the interested can look up what I said there. --jks
'The Continental Revolution of 1848 also had its reaction on
England. Men who still claimed scientific importance and wanted
to be more than mere Sophists and sycophants of the ruling classes,
sought to harmonize the Political Economy of capital with the
claims of the proletariat, now no longer to be ignored. Hence an
insipid syncretism, as best represented by John Stuart Mill.'
(from postscript to second German ed. of Capital, excerpted in
_Karl Marx: On History & People_, Saul Padover ed/trans, p. 254)
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