TITLE:
Justice Could Be Highlighted in the Perspective of Historical Materialism
AUTHORS:
Guowang Xu, Wei Zheng
KEYWORDS:
Historical Materialism, Marx’s Idea of Justice, Fact Judgment, Value Judgment
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.5 No.3,
June
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: How to understand the relationship between historical materialism and Marx’s idea of justice? The
well-know Canadian philosopher, Kai Nielsen, “who is indeed closer to Marxist moralism in substantive
conclusion, but, methodologically speaking, it is more in the spirit of Marxist immoralism”
(Nielsen,1987: p. 114), points out Marx’s ideological system is not a valueless theory of science and
society, and the facts and value judgments can be unified in Marx’s theory. Nielsen reveals the profound
idea of justice as the basic dimension of historical materialism, and the internal unity of fact
judgment and value judgment in a dual dimensions, based on the perspective of historical materialism,
showing “justice could be highlighted in the perspective of historical materialism”.