What would a just legal system even look like in a socialist society? It seems like the legal system under capitalism still holds on to a lot of weird feudal stuff, so it’s kind of hard for me to get my head around what would come after this, if we completely destroyed the bourgeois legal system.

I have no education in law and it all seems intentionally opaque, so I feel like I can’t even begin to imagine an alternative.

  • shakyamuni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I've been thinking a lot about this as well, especially if you think about the law as the rational language of the administration of the state. In the context of the Maoist idea that class struggle continues under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and that the state still serves this function of mediating class conflict, a legal revolution is necessary in the same sense as a cultural revolution in order for the proletariat to wield the state in an effective, rational manner.

      • shakyamuni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I discovered JMP recently and he's been blowing my mind https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/8221_continuity-and-rupture-review-by-hamayon-rastgar/

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          at least a decade after the defeat of revolution in China

          well, at least the author lets you know where they stand