6. The key fact to remember is that famine was man-made and relief (feeding the starving) was very feasible if government wanted to do it.
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7. C. O’Grada: Although potato crop failed, [Ireland] was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population.
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8. Fact that Mill had a more cogent & enlightened critique than most of causes of famine (in landlord system) makes his stance even worse.
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9. Mill understood famine was systematic failure not caused by Irish peasants but still wanted them to suffer (for the greater good)
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10. Everything I've said about Mill & Ireland applies even more to India, overwhich he was a key policy maker for many years.
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11. Aside from the famine stuff, Mill was actually less democratically inclined on India than others (including his father) had been.
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12. On India, Mills *unlike his dad) preferred working with local hereditary elites rather than setting up democratic institutions.
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13. Anyways,
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14. (A little tangential but contra conventional wisdom I think Coleridge & romantic poetry were not wholly good influences on Mill).
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@IanHesketh There's definitely argument that a kind of romantic orientalism infected Mill. Bentham didn't have that
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