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Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity

Socialist Constitutionalism and the Communist Polity

Chrysis, Alexandros
Kivotidis, Dimitrios

Hardcover

Series: Marx and Marxisms

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032621605
ISBN13: 9781032621609
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first incisive collaborative intervention to ongoing debates about law and politics under capitalism from an explicitly socialist constitutionalist perspective.

Heterodox literature on constitutional studies, to a large extent and with a few notable exceptions, shares a rejection of Marxist analytical principles. Moving beyond the formalism and instrumentalism, this volume will engage with the question: what differentiates a Marxist conception of socialist constitutionalism and the role of institutional forms in building socialism, from republican and post-Marxist conceptions? Drawing inspiration from socialist thinkers and historical attempts to build socialism, the contributors explain the relevance of socialist conceptions of democracy and rights for contemporary struggles for social emancipation. They combine historical and theoretical analyses to review socialist constitutional theory and practice, while thinking about the future of democracy and rights in a communist polity. The contributions deal with a variety of topical issues, including the relationship between state, law, and society; the relationship between constitutional law and revolutionary social change; right as legal superstructure and right as a form of social consciousness; the ethical grounds of communism; socialist conceptions of right; and principles for a socialist constitutionalism.

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