Beginning to think about Social Justice
So much for trying to remain unbiased in evaluating the media & the political machine. But I hope it is clear that it is not that I am uncritical of one party and not the other. We call this democracy, but first it is a democratic republic, which diffuses the impact of each individual. And second, we often use the word “democracy” when we mean capitalism. It is not the System, inherently, that is corrupt. It is the actors (in this case politicians) in the System who are corrupted by the market economy and do not actively enough address the issue of what will be most beneficial to the most people. If a basic definition of social justice starts with what is good for “most” people, then it is safe to argue that our capitalist system, which largely benefits a small minority who have begun to accrue more and more wealth at the expense of the rest of society, is not socially just.
