ABSTRACT
Marx did not see the need for a theory of social justice separate from his general view of the good, human-friendly society based on a community of interests of associated producers; that is, he saw it as a part of his project of ending alienation. He supported those principles we now put under the heading of ‘human rights’, opposed the censorship of his day, supported women’s liberation in his understanding of it, condemned discrimination based on race or ethnic origin, and supported national independence for colonial peoples. His view of personal liberty focused on the desired relationship between the one and the all – that is, ‘an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’.1
