Black Rights - White Wrongs the-critique

( 160 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs

From the cognitive vantage point of this alternative contractarianism,
we would be able to see more clearly what has always been at least dimly
visible: that the orthodox contract apparatus, far from being methodologi-
cally neutral, in fact embeds within its framework a substantive and deeply
wrong vision of the polity as consensual and non- oppressive. Making oppres-
sion central would mean that from the start we would be locating ourselves
unequivocally on the terrain of non- ideal theory. The normative project
would then no longer be the adjudication of competing versions of an ide-
ally just social order, but, rather, the adjudication of competing policies for
redressing social injustice. The evasions in the Rawls literature would no
longer be possible— and that, obviously, would be a very different variety
of contractarianism.^43

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