Abstract
TOHN STUART MILL'S socialism is rarely taken to pose a serious threat to his stature as a theorist of liberal-capitalism. To account for his confession of socialist leanings in hisAutobiography, scholars emphasize his romantic weakness for the downtrodden (Robbins 1961), his moral repugnance for existing industrial working conditions (Macpherson 1977), and Harriet Taylor's imposition of her social conscience upon a weak-willed companion (Schwartz 1972; Himmelfarb 1974; Duncan 1973). According to these explanations, Mill's socialist sympathies are clearly external to or in tension with his rationally derived principles of political economy, which continue to reflect industrial capitalist relations. Mill's failure to integrate his heart and mind or his normativejudgments and scientific formulations, it is alleged, leaves him in a state of confusion or contradiction. As a result, most commentators conclude that Mill does not make a decisive break with the liberal-
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