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 Reference
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]