Law and marcism:

criticism gerneral kelsenian theory

Abstract

Law as a human practice goes back to the most ancient societies; however, with social evolution and the increasing complexity of relations of domination between classes, law left its primary nature as a simple social regulator, to become an instrument of bourgeois domination against the proletariat. This relationship between law and the dominant ideology has been analyzed since the 19th century, reaching its theoretical peak in the critical work of Evguiéni B. Pachukanis and his critique of Hans Kelsen's hegemonic bourgeois technicist theoretical model, which consists in the withdrawal of praxis and in the strengthening the liberal vision of justice.