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hoja informativa de galileo volumen dieciseis número uno MILL A LIBERAL? Mario BUNGE, McGill University, Montreal Texto publicado en The Newyorker Adam Gopnik’s lovely portrait of John
Stuart Mill’s, one of my heroes, presents him as a liberal. This is how the
standard histories of philosophy and political science depict him. That he was,
but Mill was also a democrat at a time when most liberals were not. Moreover,
Mill was a democratic socialist, whereas most liberals were and are
anti-Socialists, and most Socialists were undemocratic If in doubt, look at his Principles of Political Economy
of 1848 (book IV, chapter VII, sect. 6): “The form of association, however,
which if mankind continues to improve, must be expected in the end to
predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and
workpeople without a voice in management, but the association of the laborers
themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they
carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by
themselves”. In short, Mill favored replacing private enterprises with
cooperatives: he was a cooperativist, hence a socialist. And he retained this
belief till the end, as is clear from his Autobiography, published posthumously in 1873, where he describes
himself as a “thorough radical and democrat.” Think how different
contemporary history might have been if, instead of working for the East India
Company, Mill had worked in the cooperative movement (Rochdale, 1844), which he
admired, and had participated with (and against) Marx in the First International
(London, 1864). ACLARACIÓN Hemos
publicado en Galileo y en la Hoja
informativa de Galileo los altibajos de una confrontación que tuvo lugar
hace muy poco en la Argentina, sobre Ciencia y Tecnología, tal como apareció
en varias oportunidades en Página 12.
Los
hemos incluido bajo los títulos de: -
Confrontación sobre tema de gran interés nacional, en Argentina y aquí,
en Galileo 37, -
Confrontación argentina utilísima para nosotros, en Galileo
38. -
Universidad de Buenos Aires: encuentro sobre política científica,
en la Hoja informativa de Galileo
de noviembre-diciembre de este año. Hemos publicado esos textos porque su difusión en Uruguay es especialmente relevante para una discusión similar que está teniendo lugar en nuestro país.
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