"Social Justice" is a code phrase of the left, which believes that such
justice can only be achieved by the recognition that capitalism and the economic
inequality it produces must be replaced by a "classless" society wherein all
differences in wealth and property have been eliminated. The “Social Justice
Movement” (quotation marks are necessary because its version of “justice” is
political rather than lexical) is quintessentially deterministic, believing as a
core principle that people are what they are because they were born into an
inflexible social order.
The "Social Justice Movement" is at war with
classical liberalism, which defines equality as the equality of all
individuals before the law, irrespective of "class" or any other collective
identity. In modern terms, the conflict between these two worldviews is similar
to the conflict between “equality of opportunity” and “equality of outcome,”
which can only be guaranteed and enforced by some structure of
authority.
The "Social Justice Movement" endorses socialism as a means of
redressing the alleged evils of capitalism and producing a programmatic equality
that it acknowledges will be purchased at the price of individual liberty and
require the manufacture of what totalitarian governments have called “the New
Man.”
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