“Every ideology dies together with the social relations which produced it. This final disappearance is, however, preceded by a moment when the ideology, suffering the blows of the critique directed at it, loses its ability to veil and conceal the social relations from which it emanated. The exposure of the roots of an ideology is a sure sign of its imminent end. For, as Lassalle said: "The dawning of a new age always consists only in the knowledge attained about the true nature of the preceding reality.” RevolutionIdeologySociologyMarxismCritiqueSocial RelationsHistorical Materialism Book:Law and Marxism Source: Law and Marxism
“The contradiction between the individual and the social, between the private and the universal, which bourgeois philosophy is unable to do away with, despite all its efforts, is the very basis of life in bourgeois society as a society of commodity-producers. This contradiction is embodied in the actual interrelations of people who cannot regard their private endeavors as social aspirations except in the absurd and mystified form of the value of commodities.” IndividualismMarxismCritiqueDialecticsHistorical MaterialismDialectical MaterialismCommodity FetishismCommodity ProductionBourgeois Philosophy Book:The General Theory of Law and Marxism Source: The General Theory of Law and Marxism
“In as much as the wealth of capitalist society appears as 'an immense collection of commodities', so this society itself appears as an endless chain of legal relations.” CapitalismSociologyMarxKarl MarxCommodity ProductionCommodity FormLaw FormLegal RelationsLegal Theory Book:Law and Marxism Source: Law and Marxism