Marx And Engels Social Justice Thought And Its Contemporary Value

As truth is the first virtue of the systems of thought, fairness and justice is the first value ofsystem in a socialist country. Although Marx and Engels don’t have a specific paper and workabout social justice issues, but they still have a very rich thought about social justice. Since thereform and open policy, our country’s economic and social development has achieved aremarkable achievement, however, in the process forward, there are also prominent contradictionsand problems, in which a notable widening income gap of residents and serious social injustice.Serious social injustice, not only will against the request of the socialist essence, but also willcause or aggravate a series of social problems, social risks and a threat of the legality of the rulingparty. In the discussion of social justice issues, domestic scholars repeatedly cite and advocateRawls and other western scholars’ speech, and the social justice thought of Marx and Engels is ina state of neglect or left out in the cold by them. In socialist country under the guidance ofMarxism, the discussion of Marx and Engels’ thought of social justice and the enlightenment hasstrong practical relevance and theoretical value.Follow the logic evolution of the question itself, the analysis of development course of Marxand Engels’ social justice thought can be divided into three development stages: liberal justiceviewpoint pursuit and confusion of liberal justice period, criticism of liberal justice viewpointperiod, the establishment of materialism social justice period.After Marx and Engels established the historical materialism, social justice thoughts scientificconnotation was expressed: As a concept of superstructure social justice which is the product ofsocial material production, it changes in the way and the evolution with the social material.Therefore, the real social foundation and power is the social production but not justice; Justice hashistoric and stage, therefore, there is no eternal justice, and there is no universal recognition of thejustice, too;"Equality not only exists in the antagonism of equality, and justice exists only with theantagonism of injustice", therefore, the communist society is a society beyond justice form.The contemporary thoughts value of Marx and Engels’ social justice is mainly manifested inthe theoretical significance and practical guiding value. While we are in the primary stage ofsocialism today, there is still a big gap compared with Marx and Engels’ thought about the firststage of the communist society, and the situation is more complex. But the standpoint, viewpointand method which is contained in Marx and Engels’ social justice thought is still has asignificance.It requires us to research the social justice issues follow historical materialism as theinstruction; vigorously develop the productive forces, and laid the material basis of social justice.Perfect distribution system, strengthen and develop the public ownership of the means ofproduction; practice people-oriented, increase adjust strength of the society.