Pachukanis and the Marxist critique of law: The General Theory of Law and Marxism a century later

Abstract

The Pachukanian project of a Marxist critique of Law depended on the expectation of suppression of legal relations (and commercial exchange as such), precisely considering the author’s positions as part of an innovative project, which, in 1924, understood that the suppression of the Law is close. As a result, the most important thing is that The General Theory of Law and Marxism proposes unfulfilled tasks, related to the thesis about the beneficial character of a Marxist critique of the general theory of Law and based on the revolutionary history of the 20th century. So, it is important to see the merits and aporias of the Marxist critique of Law inspired in Pachukanis’s book.