Luddites Movement Mill

The author of the first source, John Stuart Mill, a liberal thinker believes that individuals are free to do what they desire as long as they do not harm the others, he believes’s that people are rational enough to decide for themselves and make a decision that won't bring any harm unto others. Like the ideas in the classical liberalism he believes in human rationality so it can be implied that the source is saying that even if there is only one person who has a different opinion compared to everyone, he is in the right to voice out his opinion it does not matter how different is it from the majority’s point of view. The source is also saying that if this implies to the person who is in power then it is not right to silence the other man who …show more content…
Luddites are a group of textile workers who breaks into the factories and destroys the machinery because they believe that these are replacing them and not allowing them to work and earn money to provide for themselves or for their family. This movement is called Luddism, lead by Ned Ludd. Since the new machinery only required a cheap and unskilled worker to manage the new technologies, these skilled became increasingly worried that they will soon be replaced. This movement is in opposition to the classical liberalism, they were against the industrialization and the advancement of the technologies. They rebelled against the government and as a response, the government declared machine breaking as a capital offence which was punishable by death Although it is a true that they were successful in breaking into many factories they were not successful enough to end the industrialization as the world begun to gradually get more industrialize. This source can be related to Laissez Faire capitalism which major concern is the efficiency of the factories and the accumulation of wealth this was considered by many, especially the wealthy elites as the most important goal and the equality of workers were not their primary concerns. This is a factor that leads the Luddites to look at classical revolution as well as the industrial revolution as a negative idea, this lead to opposing …show more content…
It can be observed that there is large percentage gap of salary between man and woman in many countries, and the graph also shows the different personal responses each country has concerning classical liberalism. A fight for the women’s rights is one of the ways women responded, for instance, the universal suffrage, women in many countries had to fight to have the right to vote and to have a voice in the government regarding the rules and laws. They had to fight for their political freedom. One can see that they are in favour of the ideologies of the classical liberalism. Not only about political freedom but also in favour of the economic freedom.As one can observe in the graph, the fact that there is no equal pay of equal value between man and women it seems evident that for the society to achieve that equality between both gender is still far away in the future. In fact, it seems that this gap that is preventing the balance between both sexes is actually increasing according to the statistics recorded. New Zealand has the lowest percentage of a gap with 6 percentage of difference compared to all the country presented in the graph. It can be said that the country is favouring classical liberalism. However, in Korea where the gap is the highest it can be assumed that there are many people who do not believe that women deserve same and equal amount of salary as men,