Improving the Society:The Evolution of John Stuart Mill's Concerns with Socialist Thought
Scholars have long discussed the contradictory identity held by the nineteenth-century liberal thinker John Stuart Mill,who openly called himself a"socialist"and frequently remarked on socialist theories.To explain the gap,it's necessary to scrutinize the evolution of Mill's socialist concerns.Mill's change was based on the evolving socioeconomic realities and the growing intellectual community,as seen in his early debates in the 1820s,his strong support of the cooperative system in 1848,and his reiteration of the limi-tations of socialist thinking in the late 1860s.The fluctuations in Mill's ideas demonstrated that he was not limited to the concept of"socialism"and that social reform was his real interest.Mill's evaluation of mea-sures like cooperative management,land reform,and distribution improvement aimed to establish equity,justice,and fairness in the future society.
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