Notes toward a Marxist critique of law

Abstract

This article presents notes toward a Marxist legal sociology. It examines the changing place of law in the Marx’s work beginning with The German Ideology and then decomposes and analyses the juridical question on three levels 1) the relations of production as legal relations, 2) institutionalized social relations as a legal- state form socially recognized as legitimate, and 3) the law as a juridical ideology (a system of norms, beliefs and values with its own discursive form) that covers the preceding two elements and attributes to them meaning and moral validity.