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Starting with the unfortunate lack of a place for solidarity in the xxist century interpretation of “market justice”, this paper spells out the alternative path, namely the dialectic of justice and solidarity. While justice emphasizes the “equality” of all, solidarity emphasizes “difference” and diversity. The bridge between the two concepts may be found in recent re-interpretations of recognition theory which embraces the personal, the social, and the political sphere. The paper insists, however, on a critical approach that takes misrecognition, rather than recognition, as its starting point. Ethics in general and Christian ethics in particular needs to attend to the experiences and narratives of those who are invisible and inaudible in approaches to justice based on merit and achievement, in order to identify violations of their rights as well as practices of stigmatization. Starting with experiences of injustice rather than with the normative theory of justice, the dialectic relation between justice and solidarity becomes clear: solidarity reveals not only the gap between theory and practice or the necessarily blind side of justice, but it also takes a clear stance in favour of those who suffer from injustice. Solidarity is action-oriented, seeking to force institutions to become just, while supporting of advocating change with and for those who suffer most from injustice. On the other hand, the critical but also partisan solidarity needs the impartial, equalitarian perspective of justice as critique of the potentially ideology that is linked to any identity concept and identity politics.
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