Right, Mill distinguished between communism, roughly a planned, nonmarket society, and
"association," as I think he calledit, roughly market socialism. He thought the latter
likely as well as possible and desirable. --jks
In a message dated Thu, 31 Aug 2000 2:30:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Ted Winslow
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"whenever it ceases to be true that mankind, as a rule, prefer themselves to
others, and those nearest to them to those more remote, from that moment
Communism is not only practicable, but the only defensible form of society;
and will, when that time arrives, be assuredly carried into effect. For my
own part, not believing in universal selfishness, I have no difficulty in
admitting that Communism would even now be practicable among the elite of
mankind, and may become so among the rest."
J.S. Mill *Considerations on Representative Government*, Chap. 3
<http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/m/m645r/repgov03.html>
Ted Winslow
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