Class & Art
By Robert Black
1970Robert Black Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
IN fact that the supposed equality before the law is in conflict with the actual social inequality of individuals, groups and classes.
The intervention of the state nas, moreover, made the entire legal system much more complex and more oppressive.
However, this book deserves to be studied because it provides a clear sketch for a Marxist approach — although not written as such, it became for a while a standard text in the Soviet Union.
Pasukanis attempts to apply the Marxist method to jurisprudence, modelling himself on 'Capital'. As he puts it in the Introduction:
"The critique of bourgeois jurisprudence from the standpoint of
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$ BY TOM KEMP Friday, August 14, 1970 BOOKS ATTEMPT has often b en made to build up the anarchist PierreJoseph Proudhon as a PROUDHON: PAGE THREE