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Robert Paul Wolff wrote Understanding Rawls: A Critique and Reconstruction of A Theory of Justice, which criticized Rawls from a Marxist perspective, immediately following the publication of A Theory of Justice.

Wolff argues in this work that Rawls ' theory is an apology for the status quo insofar as it constructs justice from existing practice and forecloses the possibility that there may be problems of injustice embedded in capitalist social relations, private property or the market economy.