...it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type...

...growth was not one of its strengths either. Mill wrote disdainfully: "I am not charmed with the idea of life held out by those who think that the normal...of human beings is that of struggling to get on." He argued that the government should limit the pace of technical change, and was in favor of cooperatives...

...III: 768). This claim, of course, has hardly been tested, and its testing ground is a far cry from "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing [capitalist] type of social life" (POPE, CW II: 754). That said, Mill's hope rests on an assumption...