Marx law and justice

The genesis of this work is the series of lec tures delivered by Professor Baxi at the Kerala Law Academy in 1980. It was conceived in the pre-perestroika milieu and was a study in the liberal tradition of understanding State, Society and Law through jurisprudence.

During the period in which this work was developed further, the reform and collapse of actually existing socialist States in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe occurred in ways unimaginable even a decade ago. How ever, the author believes that even in the changed context, the Marxian mode of under standing and analysis of State, Society and Law is critically relevant to the last decade of this century, especially in India and other developing countries.

From a limited standpoint of jurisprudence, which the mainstream Marxian corpus has by and large ignored, the present work endeavours to suggest the importance of retrieval of Marxist insights. And from the standpoint of a more specifically Indian experience, it invites attention to the need for understanding Indian development from a perspective different from that of liberal tradition and vision.