When the Academics Take Over: Five Common Usages of Social Justiceĭistribution. What social justice actually is turns out to be very different from the way the term is now used popularly. It is a Catholic concept, later taken over by secular progressives. After that, let us review how the term arose.
Let us begin by asking what most people think social justice is. This is one of the great skills of Americans and, ultimately, the best defense against statism.
If people are to live free of state control, they must possess this new virtue of cooperation and association. Social justice is really the capacity to organize with others to accomplish ends that benefit the whole community.
Originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue (or habit) necessary for post-agrarian societies, the term has been bent by secular 'progressive' thinkers to mean uniform state distribution of society's advantages and disadvantages. Abstract: For its proponents, 'social justice' is usually undefined.
