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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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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I also think it's pretty redundant to Marxism, but the gist of it is "before we talk about how to build a better world, we should think about what that even means, and found this position in reason somehow". So you get the 'original position' which is just a convoluted way of tricking the bourgeois mind into considering everyone's needs equally, because... imagine if you were poor, or black etc etc. It seems pretty silly, but presumably it works for some people, so whatever lol