POLITICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR

TOPIC: POLITICAL THOUGHTS AND JUSTICESUB TOPIC: MARX ON JUSTICE

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Mrs. Shveta Dhaliwal Trishita Das Gupta

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KARL MARX

• Born – 1818• A political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist and communist revolutionary• Ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism

MARX’S ARGUMENT

• Capitalism would inevitably produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction.

• Socialism would, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism.

• This would emerge after a transitional period called the “dictatorship of the proletariat”

MARXIAN JUSTICE• Springs from within the socialist and

cooperative relations among the people

• Justice exists in the system – it is the system which gives meaning to justice.

• It would mean different things in different systems of relations of production

MARXIAN JUSTICE IN A COMMUNIST SOCIETY

• Absence of all discrimination, all exploitation and oppression.

• Work for all in accordance with their abilities as also fulfillment of all needs of all persons in return to what each of them does

• Justice is just society and its corresponding just rules

DIFFERENCESCAPITALIST JUSTICE

• Justice is more close to liberty than equality

• Rights have an edge over duties

• Principle – Take as much from the society as you can

MARXIAN JUSTICE

• Justice is more close to equality than liberty

• Duties override the rights

• Principle – Give as much to the society as you can

CONCLUSION

Marx is vocal about uneven distribution as an example of injustice.

Justice is not merely just laws, but also, just laws emanating from a just society. It is not merely economic or social in nature but also socio – economic in nature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Evans Michael, Karl Marx, Routledge, Oxon, 1975,pg 15• Arora N.D and S.S. Awasthy,

Political theory and political thought, Haranand publications, new Delhi, 2007, pg - 185 – 186• www.wikipedia.com visited on 3rd

March,2011