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Other philosophy communities have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ x ]

"I thunk it so I dunk it." - Descartes

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Wtf is Rawlsianism about anyways? (hexbear.net)
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Am I misunderstanding or is Rawlsianism simply "yeah we should be nice" as an economic/political goal?

Like... HOW Rawls??? We can all agree that being nice is a good thing. But how do we get the capitalists to do that???? Why do they need to do that? Do you think nobody in the past several thousand years thought that the poor might need to be the target of social welfare? What are you even saying???? When did the poor simply become subjects to our economic policy??? A byproduct???

In my opinion, Rawlsianism is completely redundant to Marxism. Am I missing something?

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[โ€“] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rawlsianism is being aware that capitalism is inherently oppressive, but not being able to let go of liberalism.

[โ€“] millennialstealthcamper@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Can you help me understand this more? I'd mainly heard of the veil of ignorance stuff and thought it was mainly about designing institutions to benefit the worst-off person, which seems reasonable to me.