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marxist criminal law (lemmygrad.ml)

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Dear comrades,

School has me reading criminal law and included economist aspect: Marxist theory on punishment. Anyway they keep quoting this Otto kirchheimer as a marxist writer, but it seems that guy worked for the predecessor of the CIA.... So obviously I'm very skeptical about it.

Anyone of you have any good sources on Marxist take on criminal law/punishment

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate it comrade

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Its a British perspective, key text in studying classical sociology from the UK pov.

He gives an idea of what a marxist judicial system would look like by reconstructing a legal system based on Marx's critiques, then gives a balanced perspective from a positive spin by this guy;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._P._Thompson

A reactionary trot teardown (USSR executed this guy because he said working class law was impossible)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Pashukanis

and a post-modern take (which is basically always required in the UK, eurocentrism moment) which manages to say nothing from Foucault