But none of them -- and Keynes too -- would have anything to do with workers' control of any kind until they became properly bourgeoisfied. Slave owners used the same logic. These are children. Once they mature, we can give them more rights.
JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
> Mill thinks that what we call market socialism would be best for everyone.
> He is even open minded about communism a la Fourier. He has a lot of worries
> about how capable currently uneducated workers are of running the factories
> and fields, and a lot of elitist suspicions generally. But I don't see him
> as saying, well, hell, all that would be nice, but until you do dump the
> bosses off your back, I'm on their side. Mill did want to see workers sharing
> middle class values broadly congruent to his. He called this education;
> perhaps his view of it was too narrow , but it was a lot broader than a lot
> of people's today.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
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