>>4142514>>4142512Too utilitarian and quick to aggrandize the nation-state like many English liberals of the later 19th century.
>>4142523He wasn't a classical liberal except for a brief stint in his youth. I would put him in the same category as someone like Sismondi, but Sismondi's illiberal tendencies didn't defy a preference for decentralized order whereas Mill just became an elitist Tory in liberal clothes.