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Commodity Form and Legal Form: An Essay on the “Relative Autonomy” of the Law

Balbus, Isaac D.·2017·The Sociology of Law
DOI 10.4324/9781315135069-12
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This chapter attempts to outline the essentials of a Marxian theory of law. This theory entails a simultaneous rejection of both an instrumentalist or reductionist approach, and a formalist approach. A commodity, to begin with, is a use-value: it is a qualitatively distinct object which exists to fulfill a qualitatively distinct, concrete human need and has been brought into existence by a qualitatively distinct form of labor, which Karl Marx calls "concrete labor." Insofar as Marx gives a definition of productive labour in general, this is simply labour considered from the standpoint of the product, that is, the process of combination of labourer, means of labour and object of labour viewed as leading to a result: a determinate product. In a sense the whole production process becomes a &s;function of capital&s;, since it is the capitalist enterprises which organise the collective labourer and carry out the application of new technologies.

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Authors
Balbus, I. D.
Corresponding author
Balbus, Isaac D.
Venue
The Sociology of Law
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2017-07-12
Pages
140-148
DOI
10.4324/9781315135069-12
OpenAlex
W2334849566
Cited by
94
References
3
Citations by year
2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 9
FWCI
24.07
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Legal and Social Philosophy
Keywords
commodity form, legal forms, instrumentalism, formalism, concrete labor, productive labor, use value, capitalist mode of production, labor theory of value

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