ABSTRACT

Chapter 10 investigates the development of Marx’s thoughts about justice in the process of the formation of historical materialism. From an early stage, Marx launched a critique of the bourgeois concept of justice, putting greater emphasis on examining the issue of justice in civil society. Thus, in his analysis of private property, he revealed the intrinsic relationship between alienated labour and the issue of justice. On this basis, Marx further focused the issue on social production, so his theory of justice has a historical materialist basis.