Capitalists have their own idea of justice that adapts to their needs and desires, evidently neglecting the salaried class. This leads the salaried class to form its own concept of justice as Cohen underlines "The exploited class... the proletariat, develops a conception of justice different from the prevailing one and arrives at a negative evaluation of the existing distribution of productive wealth and income. " (Cohen, M. 2014) furthermore Husami states: “it is legitimate… for the proletariat and its spokesmen to criticize capitalist distribution using proletarian standards of justice. Marx… offers such a critique.” (Husami, 1978). Through this argument, it is shown that Marx condemned capitalism as unjust through the use of justice from the perspective of wage workers. Marx was a firm believer that the capitalist state is only beneficial to individuals who are able to exploit it to achieve the top of the social ladder.
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