Comment on I wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not.
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt’s an unreachable ideal to be continuously worked towards.
No it isn’t. It’s a pretense that the class who controls the violent apparatus of the state is impartial. It’s propaganda and nothing else.
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 1 month ago
@masquenox
It's an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus and making it so. The class struggle will always make it impossible to reach, but it can always be pushed to be better.
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.
blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 1 month ago
Well, beyond that the alternative is to abolish the state, which I'm not against, but the ideal would remain.
masquenox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is no such thing as “blind” justice. What they mean with “blind justice” isn’t justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with “justice.”