Justice and History

At its root, the Marxist critique of Capitalism is Moral--that system is inherently unjust.  The injustice, usually glossed as 'exploitation', is, more commonly, 'stealing'.  For, on Marx's analysis, Labor produces Profit, so, the Laborer is the primary owner of any Profit, to which an exchange for Wages with the owners of the Means of Production, whether or not under constrained conditions, is essentially incommensurate, i. e. is stealing.  His solution to the injustice is ownership of the means of production, beginning with land, by laborers, i. e. which would eliminate the exploitation of them.  So, the consequent practical problem is effecting the collectivization of the means of production, his solution to which is Revolution, the inevitability of which is entailed in Dialectical Materialism.  Thus, in Marxism, the end is Moral, to which his theory of History is subordinated as providing a means.