Research On The Marx’s Thought Of Distributive Justice

Marx’s thought of distribution justice has important theoretical and practical significance,and it is a difficult and hot spot in current theoretical research.However,due to the lack of a comprehensive and systematic investigation of Marx’s texts,he failed to effectively restore his distributionist ideas,which limited the progress of research to a certain extent.Therefore,it is particularly necessary to restore the true connotation of Marx’s thought of distribution justice with the support of Marx’s text group and starting from the criticism of political economy.On the one hand,this can provide a basis for discerning and establishing the Marxist discourse of distributive justice,and on the other hand,it can also clarify the premise for the contemporary construction of distributive justice.Marx’s exploration of distributive justice revolves around distributive relations and its justice.Current research in Marxist theory of distributive justice are mainly conducted in two paradigms: criticism and reconstruction.With one-sided interpretation,the two paradigms either adopt a critical perspective rejecting the Marxist reconstruction of distributive justice,or accept the Marxist reconstruction of distributive justice while evading the question of how reconstruction is possible.In fact,with a certain historical and theoretical background,and on the basis of political economy critique,the theoretical critique of distributive justice has been established for realistic critique and theoretical reconstruction.Marx’s criticism of distributive justice stands in three dimensions.Firstly,it criticizes the fact that labor and wealth are separated from the level of economic relations,revealing the basis for the existence of capitalist distributive justice;secondly,it manifests its justice by criticizing ownership,freedom,equality and utilitarianism embodied in distributive relations.Thirdly,it uncovers the essence of its spiritual rule over people by criticizing the injustice of materialism.Marx revealed its injustice by criticizing the economic,moral,and spiritual aspects of capitalist distributive relations.It can be seen that,in Marx’s view,on the basis of changing the distribution relationship,the distribution justice can be reconstructed.Marx’s possible reconstruction of distributive justice lies in two aspects.One is the distributive justice in the first stage of communism.At this stage,the joint possession of the means of production in the distributive relationship has enabled people to achieve substantial liberation hence justice,but this distribution relationship bears the "trace" of capitalism,it will also lead to an excessive gap in wealth distribution in reality.So there exists the formal injustice.Second,the distributive justice to achieve the complete liberation of people in the advanced stage of communism.Distributive justice in this sense means that man is completely liberated from the old economic,moral,and spiritual rule and realized as a free and comprehensive man.It is a kind of distributive justice that unites substance and form.Distributive justice in this sense is a kind of distributive justice that unites substance and form.For China as a country in the primary stage of socialism,Marx’s thought of distributive justice provides important guidance for the analysis and solution of distributive issues.