One of the most evil concepts out there today is: “social justice.” What exactly is “social” justice — as opposed to simply, justice?
The very concept sneaks in an assumption that’s truly evil: that something unjust may be considered just the moment you rationalize it as good for society over the individual.
Case in point: “Keeping all of your property is just for the individual. But what’s just socially — for all of society — is for everyone to give up all or most of their income.”
What happens when you consider the fact that the person worked for this money he’s forced to surrender to the authorities in the name of “society”? That doesn’t matter. That’s individual justice — not really justice. Social justice is what matters. And “social justice” requires that when the government comes knocking on your door for your property — and by extension, every other aspect of your individual rights — well, that’s the only justice that counts.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro and other totalitarian brutes throughout history all explicitly claimed that justice means putting society above the individual. You see where that claim led, in every single case: misery, death, despair, and ultimately ruin. If “society” means everyone in general, i.e. “the people,” then society sure doesn’t benefit from social justice too much.
By qualifying justice with the term “social justice,” in one fell swoop you throw out all rights of the individual, on principle.
That’s why the concept of “social justice” isn’t only wrong, corrupt and dishonest; it’s also completely incompatible with the morality or government of a free society, in which the fruits of the labor of an individual belong to the individual, not to society.
And remember: in practice, “society” doesn’t mean benevolent, do-gooding people who will see to it that the confiscated earnings of the individual are distributed justly. That’s a total fallacy and fantasy.
We see how well these career politicians and connected “business people” live off the concept of social justice. Social justice is all the things that Marxists claim that capitalism is. But capitalism allows you to keep your earnings. Marxism demands you to give them up to the connected — who live like kings. And today in America, those kings (and queens) are coming for a lot more than your wallet.