Prudent Transition: Between The Market And Distributive Justice

During the middle of 19th century, there existed an important transition in the theory and practice of Liberalism. The transition arose from the social crisis newly caused by the fully development of Industry Revolution and the gradual establishment of Capitalist Institutions. Opposite to the optimistic prevision of classical liberalists. the serious confliction between bourgeois and working class took the place of the natural compatibility of liberty and equality. In 1848John Stuart Mill published his "Principles of Political Economy-Some of their applications to Social Philosophy" as well as Karl Marx published his "The Communist Manifesto". These two works showed the two different ideologies-Liberalism and Socialism-responded to the capitalist social problems in different ways.In "Principles of Political Economy", Mill separated the Distribution from the Production in the capitalist system. He put the Distribution into the field influenced and controlled by people's mind. "Bat means Administration and Legislations are able to effect the operation and results of distributions. He expounded the law of private ownership, which modified the history injustice of distribution. He suggested some re-distribution methods be adopted to compensate victims of the injnstice.Mill brought humanistic concerns into the "cruel" Classical Political Economy. His efforts made die value of equality as important as liberty in the tradition of Liberalism. The Socialist value elements in his thoughts broadened the inclusion of the liberal system. From his time on, the sflcialized Liberalism instead of the classical Liberalism have turned to be the main stream of the western political tradition. The practice of Welfare State Policy rooted deeply into Mill's considerations on distributive justice.