I picked up the illuminating essays on liberty, utilitarianism and representative government by John Stuart Mill. This man left nothing that could be uncoverred, all queries satisfied, the intellectual opposite of "Das Kapital" yet with the same brutally logical utopic intentions. Take for example the essay on Liberty, John logically deduces it's necessity and uses the premises developped to calculate solutions. In his essay on Utilitarianism he resolves the issue of powerless minorities by plugging in empirical reality with a social contract stemming from his essay on Liberty.