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  • 7 - Social Justice in a Socialist Society

  • Edited by Martin Conway, University of Oxford, Camilo Erlichman, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Book:
    Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe
    Published online:
    29 February 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2024, pp 139-162

  • Summary

    This chapter takes as its point of departure the observation that the growing acceptance of the market in state-socialist Hungary after 1956 and the evolution of a language of social justice are intertwined. It argues that in the case of socialist countries, notions of social justice, the second economy, and the black market developed in parallel. As references to the second economy and the black market became increasingly frequent in official public discourses, so did references to social justice and to its socialist-era synonyms (e.g., ‘socialist justice’), especially during late socialism. Thus, by the end of the socialist era, the market and social justice had lost their mutually exclusive and contradictory meanings. Conversely, references to the second economy and the market as a tool better suited to address social inequalities than redistribution became synonymous with the assertion of social justice.