Marx’s Criticism On Distributive Justice Of Capitalism

The production mode is the logical starting point of Marx’s criticism on distributive justice of capitalism.This is related to Marx’s method of justice research,and it also depends on the fact that production decides distribution.In the youth,Marx’s idea of justice was influenced by the classical liberalism’s idea of justice,showing the characteristics of speculative philosophy.In the guidance of this idea of justice,Marx discovered the irreconcilable contradiction between theory and reality,and then began to criticize the liberal idea of justice.Before the formation of materialist conception of history,Marx’s criticism showed the characteristics of speculative philosophy obviously.After the formation of materialist conception of history,Marx took materialist concept of history as a method,and criticized the liberal idea of justice profoundly and thoroughly from the starting point of material production.Marx criticized the distributive justice of capitalism in accordance with this path.Unlike capitalist economists or vulgar socialists who researched distribution from distribution,Marx found that production played decisive role in distribution,and took its key core element,the capitalist mode of production,as a logical starting point of distribution research.Marx pointed out that the freedom and equality embodied in the field of exchange between capitalists and workers were merely superficial.When going deeply into the field of production,we would find their injustice.From the exploitation of workers by the capitalists,Marx criticized the injustice of capitalism and revealed the main manifestations of distributive injustice of capitalism.According to Marx’s theory of labor value,values are created by labor,and workers’ labor products should belong to workers.However,what the workers finally get is only the value of living materials that only maintains basic survival.The surplus value is owned by the capitalists.According to the decisive relationship between production and distribution,Marx went deeply into the production process and found the secret of exploitation.Because of the existence of capitalist private ownership,capitalists have acquired the ownership of the means of production and thus have the power to govern the labor force of proletarian.Exploitation thus arises.At the same time,under the leadership of capital logic,the exploitation between capitalist and workers has become more and more severe,and the distribution of capitalism has become increasingly unjust.As a proletarian revolutionary,Marx’s all-critique point of view is to achieve the liberation of all human beings and shows a strong humanistic concern.Therefore,on the basis of criticizing distributive justice of capitalism,Marx puts forward the principle of distributive justice in communist society so as to provide guarantees for everyone’s free and overall development.For our country,the excessive income gap and the disparity between the rich and the poor have become a realistic difficulty that must be solved.Marx’s criticism on distributive justice of capitalism has provided some guidance for the solution of our country’s reality problems.