Law and Marxism Quotes

“In as much as the wealth of capitalist society appears as 'an immense collection of commodities', so this society itself appears as an endless chain of legal relations.”
― Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism

“Every ideology dies together with the social relations which produced it. This final disappearance is, however, preceded by a moment when the ideology, suffering the blows of the critique directed at it, loses its ability to veil and conceal the social relations from which it emanated. The exposure of the roots of an ideology is a sure sign of its imminent end. For, as Lassalle said: "The dawning of a new age always consists only in the knowledge attained about the true nature of the preceding reality.”
― Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism