It is not unusual to regard Jacques Derrida, the founder of Deconstruction, as de-Marxified philosopher, who attacks the any doctrine of politics, not to mention Marxism. However, the essay considers another aspect of his theory, related to the alternative politics in terms of the ethic. What must be stressed is that Derrida adapts Walter Benjamin's perspective and develops the political concept of justice in terms of the ethic. Therefore, the aim of the essay is to explore Derrida's conceptualization of justice in his formulation of the ethic. He involves the traditional discourse of politics by raising the argument of a spectre and claims that mourning, a spectre, and justice are relevant to each other, the binding those is the very point of thinking justice against the conventional concept of the relationship between justice and law. The essay shed light on the way in which Derrida reads Marx with this own perspective, and argues that the political, the one in which we can overcome the ossified status of politics by introducing the messianic dimension into the political discourse-it is the very attempt that Theodor W. Adorno defends the category of critique in terms of the aesthetic. From this perspective, it is not wrong to say that Derrida's politics is firmly constructed on the context of Western radical philosophy.
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