{"title":"John Stuart Mill","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Stuart Mill's works offer profound insights into \u003cstrong\u003eliberty, utilitarianism\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the principles shaping modern democracy. His writings explore the balance between individual freedom and social authority, navigating complex questions of governance and ethical reasoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find influential essays and treatises that engage with themes in \u003cem\u003epolitical philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and moral theory, addressing topics such as equality, justice, and the role of government. 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Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work \u003cem\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e argues lucidly that any democracy risks becoming a 'tyranny of opinion' in which minority views are suppressed if they do not conform with those of the majority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the same period as \u003cem\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e, shortly after the death of Mill's beloved wife and fellow-thinker Harriet, \u003cem\u003eThe Subjection of Women\u003c\/em\u003e stresses the importance of equality for the sexes. 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Both systems gave expression to 19th century man’s longing for equality and justice, both promised to liberate him from the shackles of oppression, authority and tradition. Instead of liberating man, Communism created the most brutal system in human history, and its spectacular fall in 1989 is one of history’s greatest events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Western world today shows that liberal-democracy is no longer a benign doctrine, which advocates free market, minimum state and individual liberties, but, like Communism, is an all-encompassing ideology which forces an individual to abdicate his freedom and soul in favour of a Communist-like collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs many critics of real Socialism could see the seeds of totalitarianism in the writings of Marx and Engels, so one can see the seeds of liberal totalitarianism in Mill’s writings. 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