He believes the state has the power to correct such injustice, and he implores the state to use its power to do so. He is an advocate of plunder. Oh, our intellectual never uses the term plunder. The term he uses is redistribution. But taxation is plunder.
Plunder is the taking of property by force.
Taxation, also, is the taking of property by force. Plunder perpetrated by government is still plunder. Plunder is still plunder, and taxation is still plunder, no matter how many people are in favor of it. Government may use the loot it plunders in many ways. Or government officials may line their pockets with the loot.