Reflecting on the North-South dialogue, I consider questions of global justice. I argue that questions of global justice are just as genuine as questions of domestic justice. A too-narrow construal of the circumstances of justice leads to an arbitrary forestalling of questions of global justice. It isn’t that we stand in conditions of moral reciprocity. I first set out concerning the conditions in the North and South and the relations between them something of the facts in the case coupled with some interpretative sociology. Such investigations show massive disparities of wealth and condition between North and South and further show that these disparities have been exacerbated by the interventionist policies of the west. I then, while remaining mindful of the strains of commitment, argue that justice requires extensive redistribution between North and South but that this can be done without at all impoverishing the North, though to do so would indeed involve a radical reordering of the socio-economic system of the North.
