Stosunki klasowe, sprawiedliwość społeczna i polityka różnicy
Class Relations, Social Justice and the Politics of Difference

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes political and epistemological limitations of postmodern critique of justice in the midst of an economic and ideological rule of free market universalism. Interpreting the lack of political response to a fire of chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, which took 25 victims, the author discusses questions of identity politics, multiculturalism, situatedness, otherness and difference. It is impossible, in Harvey’s opinion, to discuss them apart from political environment and material conditions. The return to economic issues (including question of exploitation, class and accumulation), neglected by postmodernists, and epistemology based on historical and geographical materialism provide us with an opportunity for the recovery of concepts of universality (in dialectical relation with particularity) and social justice as a powerful mobilizing discourse for political action.

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