Beyond Dominion, Beyond Possibility of Justice

Although “the characterization of perfectly just institutions has become the central exercise in the modern theories of justice”,5 in this article I will provide some reasons not to keep working within its most important example, the Rawlsian conception of “justice as fairness”. After all, together with the ideal theory of justice advanced by the majority of political philosophers, there is another way to mean this concept. In this regard, Marxian criticism of justice can be very useful to directly face the sense of injustice – as suggested by Judith Shklar6 – rather than continuing not to keep it into account simply because it is not justified by already institutionalised norms.