Marx's Economic Justice Thought

The pursuit of human justice is so old and has a long history, as old as mankind itself. Justice issues is closely related to the development of human beings, it is the fundamental pursuit of value and the eternal significance of human society. With the establishment and development of market economy, the economy has grown rapidly, and it has brought enormous benefits to human survival and development which can be described as a blessing to human beings. However, the development of economy has not solved the problems of human poverty, rich and poor gap, etc. On the contrary, these issues become more complex in modern society, the problems of these reality economic field makes it more concerned with economic justice issues than ever. Economic justice is a increasingly highlighted major problem in the process of economic development in contemporary society.Marx's thoughts of the economic justice will have an epoch-making breakthrough about economic justice, because of its unique perspective of historical materialism. So, it is the most valuable resource with which we grasp the theory of economic justice issues. This paper will attempt to discover the profound thoughts of Marx's economic justice and gain a very useful inspiration and lesson. Encountered in the present market economy and economic globalization of today's world, it can develop the economic justice and provide a strong theoretical support for the theory of economic justice, and provide many theoretical references about the economic problems in the modern reality.In this paper, the inquiry into the thought of Marx's economic justice is based on a special perspective transformation, and from the abstract humanist interpretation to the historical materialism perspective, reveals that it has a transformation process about the formation of Marx's economic justice, which is unique research ideas and innovations of this paper. The previous inquiry about it was focused on the discovery of its essence of the theory, and gave very few attention to the differences in the formation of his thoughts. However, this is the special theoretical value precisely.First, we must clear the origin of the theory of economic justice from the Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, and then through the modern times to the modern context of sorting out briefly, and then locate the meaning of economic justice, and analyze the causes about economic justice issues highlighted in the modern society, for the further study of the thought of Marx's economic justice. Based on a theoretical explanation of his thought, we can conclude that the real point of Marx's thought of economic justice is the profound analysis of socio-economic relations; the intermediate link is critical and the transcendence of the abstract concept of economic justice and capitalist economic relations; the criteria is to look the economic justice into the historical reality of social production; its value orientation is to achieve comprehensive development of human freedom and to achieve communism. It further reveals that the characteristics of his theory is realized from the speculative to the practical justice, from formal justice to the real justice and from the virtue justice to the system justice. And compare his thoughts to Adam·Smith, Western neo-liberal and Western Marxism about the theory of economic justice. In this comparison, we can reproduce their unique revolutionary thinking, and finally apply it to our present building of a socialism market economy. Revealing the challenges of the theory of economic justice facing the economic reality in contemporary China, has a theoretical inspiration and practical significance to construct China's theory of economic justice.