" While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its first serious analytical foundation, a political economy of progress that still echoes today. A rereading of Mill's...

Socialism as the Means to Maximizing Happiness: Mill's Crisis of Faith and the Expansion of the Horizons of Human Society -- Criticisms of Capitalism and Mill's Idea of a "Perfected" System of Private Property -- Mill's Assessment of Contemporary Socialism(s): Community, Cooperation and...