Nadya Vera Margareth S

1306388622
FH KKI 2013
Law and Economy Development
The Role of Law in Socialism Economic Development
According to Karl Marx and F. Engels, since a state is the form in
which the individuals of a ruling class assert their common interests,
and in which the whole civil society of an epoch is epitomized, it
follows that the state acts as an intermediary for all community
institutions, and that these institutions receive a political form.
A legal tradition is not a set of rules of law about contracts,
corporations and crimes, although such rules will almost always be
in some sense a reflection of that tradition. Rather it is a set of
deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of
law, about the role of law in the society and the polity, about the
proper organization and operation of legal system and the way law
is or should be made, applied, studied, perfected and taught.
Western society has a thought that a legal system comprises a
relatively effective mixture of rules and institutions that govern
relations among individuals and groups in a society, which is
typically the population of a nation-state or some other substantially
autonomous political entity, and that also regulate the role and
powers of the government of that entity.
According to Karl Marx, in the social production which men carry on
they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and
independent of their will. This relation of production is corresponding
to a definite stage of development of their material powers of
production, which constitutes of the economic structure of society,
in

which

the

real

foundation

on

which

legal

and

politics

superstructures

arise and to

which

definite

forms

of

social

consciousness correspond. This mode of life material determines the

general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of
life. So it is not the consciousness of men that determines their
being,

however,

their

social

being

that

determines

their

consciousness. So in these stages of development, the material

forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing
relations of production.
With the birth and development of socialist relations of production,
new economy laws make their appearance and begin to operate;
the

basic

economic

law

of

socialism,

the

law

of

planned

(proportional) development of the national economy, the law of

steady increase in the productivity of labor, the law of distribution
according to work, the law of socialist accumulation, etc.
The development of socialist mode of production is ruled by the
economic laws which are common to all social formations, as for
example the law of the necessary conformity of the relations of
production to the character of the productive forces. The economic
law of socialism expresses the essence of socialist relations of
production. In which contradictive to the economic laws of
capitalism, which reflect the growing exploitation of labor by capital.
The economic law of socialist more to reflect the relation of
comradely cooperation and mutual aid existing between worker who
are free from exploitation.