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.
Its important to remember that the legal system in the US is mostly just a tool of class/social oppression. Violent crime legislation is but a fraction of the whole, with the majority being property crimes, inherent to class hierarchic systems. In a proletarianized society, most crime, and the need for most law as we know it today, will wither away with the state. What will be left will likely be more in the realm of social work and rehabilitation, possibly through new labor postings or integration into a different community.
Obviously there will be the structural law of the overall socialist transitional state, and that to me will be the interesting part, as it will need to be founded in fluidity, as socialism is merely the transitional phase to a stateless (written-lawless, or perhaps thats utopian?) communism.