reform and rev

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 reform and rev
by Rakesh Bhandari
23 January 2002 03:25 UTC

I forgot to add the Marxist legal theorist Pashakunis. Would he have
also agreed with Charles that the Bolsheviks encouraged the reading
of Marx? Maybe this discussion would become productive if the
barrister Charles were to explain why the Bolsheviks burned his
writings and (as they put it) liquidated him.
rb

^^^^^^^^^^

CB: I am not familiar with Pashakunis' liquidation specifics, although I believe it was after the Bolsheviks were dissolved into the CPSU.

I recall in reading Pashakunis wondering why a Marxist lawyer wouldn't start with private property as the root of study rather than contract and circulation, as Pashakunis did. Micheal Perlman's study of intellectual property is more Marxist jurisprudence in focus in that regard.