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Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an abstract general standard by which human reason assesses social practices and institutions, it is rather a standard by which a mode of production measures itself. It is a juridical concept measuring not, for example, if capitalism is just, but whether this or that is just within the logic of capitalism.

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Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not and cannot be a genuinely revolutionary notion. The revolutionary who is captivated by the passion for justice misunderstands, in the marxian view, both the existing production relations and his own revolutionary aspirations.

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Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the property a transaction possesses when it stands in a certain functional relationship to the mode of production in which it takes place.

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Justice (n.) lies, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for an economic transaction, not in natural law but in its fit with the mode of production: slavery is unjust on a capitalist basis; so is cheating on quality.

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Justice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in its turn reduced to the actual laws.