Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 02:20:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Pragmatism & Human Nature



I don't dismiss law as merely a bourgeous tool of class rule. I use it to
fight the bourgeoisie. As you well know I defend a good deal of the
content of American law. But the more you learn about it, the more you
learn how impressive a tool of the bourgeoisie it is. The fact that in a
market socialist society a lot of the law would be similar doesn't mean
that the law in a bourgeois context is a tool of the working class. The
firm might be similar, but the substance is quite different.

--jks

On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, boddhisatva wrote:
> 
> 	To dismiss modern law, especially American law, as simply a tool
> of class rule is ridiculous.  Our law clearly reflects anti-capitalist
> social sentiments and realities as well as protecting the propertied
> class.  Furthermore the social contracts guiding capitalist-to-capitalist
> relations are clearly very similar to what any sensible socialist society
> would develop for co-op to co-op relations or the relations of any
> subdivision of the national state.
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> 	I think that it's important to bring this up because the
> anti-intellectual dismissing of law that Marxists engage in makes us look
> like effete, impotent kooks. 
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> 	peace
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