Am I misunderstanding or is Rawlsianism simply “yeah we should be nice” as an economic/political goal?
Like… HOW Rawls??? We can all agree that being nice is a good thing. But how do we get the capitalists to do that??? Why do they need to do that? Do you think nobody in the past several thousand years thought that the poor might need to be the target of social welfare? What are you even saying??? When did the poor simply become subjects to our economic policy??? A byproduct???
In my opinion, Rawlsianism is completely redundant to Marxism. Am I missing something?
It’s an appeal to abstract logic - so it has marginally more traction under the dictatorship of capital than Marxism (appeal to material logic).
It’s mostly just a thing that escorts a minority of liberals away from liberalism to marxism, but only those whom were liberal by cultural default.