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Full Idea
Marxists believe that justice, far from being the first virtue of social institutions, is something that the truly good community has no need for.
Gist of Idea
Marxists say justice is unneeded in the truly good community
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) [1990], 5.1)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.164
A Reaction
This seems to imply that in the truly good community there are nothing but truly good individuals, which is taking social determinism to its limits. Are all the citizens of a bad community inherently bad?
Related Idea
Idea 18655 Justice corrects social faults, but also expresses respect to individuals as ends [Kymlicka]
| 21407 | Equality is not being bound in ways you cannot bind others [Kant] |
| 21076 | Equality is where you cannot impose a legal obligation you yourself wouldn't endure [Kant] |
| 7340 | Mosaic law was the first to embody the rule of law, and equality before the law [Johnson,P] |
| 18654 | Marxists say justice is unneeded in the truly good community [Kymlicka] |