{"id":381338,"date":"2018-10-17T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/before-the-law\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T11:30:34","slug":"before-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/before-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_106265\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106265\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/Lawandorder01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/Lawandorder01.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/Lawandorder01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/10\/Lawandorder01-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Law and Order Television Show Logo | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The limited formal and negative generality of law under liberalism not only makes possible capitalist calculability but also guarantees a minimum of liberty since formal liberty has two aspects and makes available at least legal chances to the weak. For this reason there develops a conflict between the law and the liberties based thereon on the one side, and the requirements of a monopolistic economy on the other side. Under monopolistic capitalism private property in the means of production as the characteristic institution of the entire bourgeois epoch is preserved but general law and contract disappear and are replaced by individual measures on the part of the sovereign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Franz Neumann, <a href=\"https:\/\/legalform.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/neumann-the-change-in-the-function-of-law-in-modern-society1.pdf\"><em>The Change in the Function of Law in Modern Society<\/em><\/a>, 1937<\/p>\n<p>Large Capitalist firms \u2014 banks as well as monopoly concerns \u2014 long ago ceased to depend on court proceedings to conduct their affairs with members of other social groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Otto Kircheimer,\u00a0<em>State Structure and Law in the Third Reich<\/em>, 1935 pamphlet<\/p>\n<p>What is legalism? It is the ethical attitude that holds moral conduct to be a matter of rule following, and moral relationships to consist of duties and rights determined by rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Judith Shklar,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/ 0674523512\/counterpunchmaga\"><em>Legalism<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do not the bourgeois assert that the present-day distribution is \u2018fair\u2019? And is it not, in fact, the only \u2018fair\u2019 distribution on the basis of the present-day mode of production? Are economic relations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/17\/before-the-law-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Law and Order Television Show Logo | CC BY 2.0 The limited formal and negative generality of law under liberalism not only makes possible capitalist calculability but also guarantees a minimum of liberty since formal liberty has two aspects and makes available at least legal chances to the weak. For this reason there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}