recomended reading for essay on law and marxism

[redmarxist90]

I am planning on writing an essay for my legal history module on law and Marxism. Whether that will be on the law and Marxism or Marxist critique of the law; i don't know yet. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good material that will help.

Thanks, in advance.

[MarxSchmarx]

well there is a whole bunch of marxist inspired legal theory that sees the law as part of the class struggle. I guess you can start with this:

http://books.google.com/books?id=YqQ...arxist&f=false

Personally I have never been terribly impressed with the application of Marxism to jurisprudence. I find it dry, rather deterministic, and quite frankly a shallow reading of Marx. For what it's worth I think there could be a much richer, more nuanced place for marxism in our approach to the law but this will not happen in my lifetime
:þ

But if it's just a term paper my advice is to play it safe and be mostly expository.

[Red Economist]

I would reccomend looking into:

Pashukanis 'Law and Marxism: A General Theory'
Vyskinsky 'The Law of the Soviet State'

I haven't read either of them, but according to a book I have on Jurisprudence, these are the two main thinkers for Soviet Legal theory. Pashukanis argued that 'law' is associated with commodity exchange and withers away under socialism. Vyshinsky aruges that socialism produces it's own legal forms. (Note:the shift in theory is directly related to the change in leadership with Stalin).

there are 'western marxist' authors on the subject, but I don't have any deatiled information. Best of Luck.

[brigadista]

not sure if this is of any help but you may find some info here - not all marxist but it may get you some links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies

there is also this http://books.google.co.uk/books/abou...AJ&redir_esc=y

[redmarxist90]

I would reccomend looking into:

Pashukanis 'Law and Marxism: A General Theory'
Vyskinsky 'The Law of the Soviet State'

I haven't read either of them, but according to a book I have on Jurisprudence, these are the two main thinkers for Soviet Legal theory. Pashukanis argued that 'law' is associated with commodity exchange and withers away under socialism. Vyshinsky aruges that socialism produces it's own legal forms. (Note:the shift in theory is directly related to the change in leadership with Stalin).

there are 'western marxist' authors on the subject, but I don't have any deatiled information. Best of Luck.

Thanks. Coincidently i recently found the 'law and marxism: a general theory' in my library. will look in to the second book also