Try this at your next party.

Ask your guests to define the term social justice.

Okay, it's not charades or twister, but it should generate some interesting conversation,

especially if your guests are on the political left.

Since everyone on that side of the spectrum talks incessantly about social justice,

they should be able to provide a good definition, right?

But ask ten liberals to tell you what they mean by social justice,

and you'll get ten different answers.

That's because social justice means anything its champions wanted to mean.

Almost without exception, labor unions, universities and colleges,

private foundations and public charities claim at least part of their mission

to be the spreading of social justice far and wide.

Here's the mission statement of the AFL CIO,

but it could be the mission statement for a thousand such organizations.

Quote, the mission of the AFL CIO is to improve the lives of working families,

to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

In short, social justice is code for good things no one needs to argue for,

and no one dare be against.

This very much troubled the great economist Friedrich Hayek.

This is what he wrote in 1976, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in economics.

I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men

would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed,

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