"In the unity of justice, equality and security, justice is, in my opinion, the fundamental concept. Those Marxists who, albeit in perfect good faith, argue that Marxism is not a theory of justice are therefore wrong, because the unequal distribution of surplus value and its very production do not derive from unfair distributive choices, but from mechanisms that are completely independent of ethics. If Marxism wants to survive, it must become a theory of justice, although in my opinion not in a neo-contractualist or neo-utilitarian form. Contrary to what the “aristocratic rebel” Nietzsche thought, the demands for equality and security are not at all in conflict with justice, but are in fact absolutely organic elements of its specification. After all, even children know that in the last two hundred years, no one has ever become a revolutionary after understanding the mechanism of Marx's theory of value, but always and only because of a demand for meaning, a request for perspective and a reaction to injustice, inequality and insecurity."
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