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Dominion and Wealth

A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Donna C. Kline

    1. School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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Part of the book series: Sovietica (SOVA, volume 49)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. An Analysis of Marx’ Description of the Will Theory of Law

    • Donna C. Kline
    Pages 1-56

  3. An Examination of the Accuracy of Marx’ Description of the Will Theory

    • Donna C. Kline
    Pages 57-80

  4. Duress and Free Will in Nineteenth-Century Contract Law

    • Donna C. Kline
    Pages 81-138

  5. An Examination of the Accuracy of Marx’ Description of the Law

    • Donna C. Kline
    Pages 139-152

  6. An Analysis of Marx’ Criticism of Nineteenth-Century Commercial Law

    • Donna C. Kline
    Pages 153-175

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 176-250
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About this book

Donna Kline's contribution to the Sovietica series falls outside the strict confines of the study of Soviet Marxism-Leninism. It centers its attention on the seemingly minor question of Marx' knowledge of and attitude toward the legal theory and practice in vogue at the time he was writing studies that directly addressed issues of law and economics, and that indirectly helped to fashion the legal and economic behavior of Soviet-style regimes. That this question is not as minor or as irrelevant to Marxism-Leninism as it might seem at fIrst glance flows from Marx' obvious intent to do a thorough critique of all the vectors of 'bourgeois-capitalist' civilization and culture, clearly expressed in the many key texts, where 'legal relations' form at least part of the central focus. Marx' thought was forming when the 'bourgeois' law that had become self-conscious at the end of the 18th century was, following the French Revolution, trying to 'take possession' of the social-political consciousness of European-American culture, and fInding itself coming up against the 'vagaries' of economic quasi-anarchy. There is a sense in which the 'bourgeois-capitalist' efforts at developing a legal code for existing economic practice represent a sort of 'ideology in practice' to be applied to the same phenomena that Marx wanted to account for in his peculiarly Hegelian ideological critique.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, USA

    Donna C. Kline

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dominion and Wealth

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law

  • Authors: Donna C. Kline

  • Series Title: Sovietica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3877-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8224-2Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3877-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0561-2551

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 250

  • Topics: Philosophy of Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Philosophy

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