File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9711, message 192


Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:19:56 +0000
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-I: Zobel ruling and class justice


At 07:04 PM 11/10/97 -0500, Carrol wrote:

       Re: M-I: Science and justice                      


>
>In a period of intense class struggle within a bourgeois democracy (and
>in such periods the capitalist class knows no limits to its brutality),
>the use of juries willing to ignore the facts can be very important.
>On the average, experts will be "objective" in the sense of objectivity
>as honoring the ruling cliches of the day.


I agree with this. Zobel's dramatic unusual ruling shows awaremess of a
need to come up with a professional decision which will restore faith in
justice. Once again justice must appear to stand above classes and parties.

In fact this is a corrective, to accommodate stresses that got too out of
line with the ideal which is essential for maintaining the dictatorial
aspects of the class state. 

There remain enough biases in the system, some institutional, some just
reflecting the existence weakness of working people, for justice to remain
a strongly class biassed justice.

Just consider if the defendant had not been commodifiable as an
international human interest story.

Chris Burford

London



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