Marxist View Of Justice And Contemporary Values

Fairness and justice as a kind of value pursuit, is a new topic and it isnever out of fashion, In the history of every age, every class has its ownconcept of fairness and justice, it is the concept that guide people to formthe value orientation and the distribution of interests. But times arechanging, so the fair justice has to be changed. After the founding of ourcountry, China has never stopped to explore social equity and justice,although there are twists and turns, errors, it also made greatachievements, has formed a series of justice theory that is suitable for thedevelopment of productivity. Yet today,we are building a harmonioussociety, there are still many problems unfair justice, such as: the socialgap between rich and poor widens, imbalance of education and socialsecurity, etc., therefore, we should find the scientific method combiningwith the condition of new period to solve the problem.The justice thought of Marx and Engels about solving the problemprovides the theoretical guidance, Marx and Engels has never specially talked about justice thought, but by the criticism and communist about lasalle, Turin, bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology thinking about thefuture, we still can find its value clearly. Unlike previous thinkers, Marxand Engels stood in the height of historical materialism, dialectical way,in-depth analysis of the politics, economy and culture of each era, withcriticism of the way proposed his own theory of fairness and justice, andthrough the test of history and practice.This article is on the basis of Marx and Engels justice theory and thecriticism of the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology, summarizingthe basic content of fairness and justice, and find these content incommon: history, nature and practicality. Then China since the foundingof fairness and justice is analyzed a series of exploration, and in view ofthe unfair situation in today’s China, under the guide of Marx andEngels’s theory of justice was put forward a series of ways and means ofbuilding a harmonious society. Here need to be pointed out that becauseof the age in which Marx and Engels background and limitation ofhistorical condition, the theory is not perfect, so we said, Marx and Engels’s theory of justice system is not an end, but rather an open,constantly enrich the field.