ABSTRACT
J. S. Mill's views concerning municipal ownership as over against nationalization are further stated in his reply to a letter addressed to him by the Committee of the Metropolitan Sanitary Association, January 22, 1851. Mill distinguished two forms of socialism. The first was espoused by the "more thoughtful and philosophic socialists" and typically represented by M. Fourier and Chandler Owen. The second form was termed revolutionary Socialism, a product more of continental Europe than of Britain. In Mill's description revolutionary socialism or communism called for the management of the whole productive resources of the country by one central authority, and a distribution of incomes according to a principle of abstract justice; to each according to his need. The note concerning Mill's views on monopoly and public ownership would be incomplete without some reference to his attitude toward the socialist programs in his day.
