Classical liberals like Mill usually argue that so long as you aren't being coerced or forced to do something by the state, then you are free. People sympathetic to Marx are likely to argue that freedom requires that we are protected from forms of coercion that stem from economic disparities, and that this perhaps requires some kind of active state intervention to make sure that we are free to make our own economic choices. What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with Mill or Marx? Or perhaps a little with both?
Marx's argument is somewhat agreeable also because sometimes the government make us pay for their mistakes, so Marx argument protects us from the government forcing economic choices and insure us that the choices we are making are in fact our own. Mill's argument is agreeable to an extent because we need some freedom from the state in some of the things we do, not all. For example if the state did not make people pay their taxes then most of them wouldn't but because we are forced to we do.In essences I agree with both of them,but I feel like I said with Marxs now in the sense that he wants more to protect us from government for our own well being.
You probably meant to say Mill in the last sentence. You distinguish them quite well though.
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