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Assignment:

"The free market is taken as inevitable, but there has to be some mechanism for preventing the fragmentation of communities and societies encouraged by open competition and exploitation. In his Autobiography, Mill aligned himself with the 'general designation of Socialists', whilst declaring himself against the 'tyranny of society over the individual. Socialist 'combinations', such as unions, were a potential threat to freedom, not least because the workers themselves were 'generally liars' and not fit to participate actively in politics (Mill, 1989, p 209).

Accordingly, Mill's socialism was subject to the overriding imperatives of individual liberty, and the object of social reform was not to do away with private property or profit but to 'mitigate' the 'inequalities consequent' upon these various legally defined 'institutions'. A refined free market depends upon every market actor possessing the potential to engage in transaction, and the law must ensure against the situation in which some individuals ~ are too impoverished to act effectively in the market. "

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory by Ian Ward can you please Explain Whose system of ideas is Ward referring to in this passage and Provide an analysis of this excerpt (i.e. explain what the author is saying) and explain whether the author's position is either that of a classical liberal or a reform liberal. and explain the differences between the two positions, and in so doing, elaborate upon how the above position involves a specific conception of freedom.