u/AristotleKarataev

I'm interested in learning more about how recent Marxists or critical theorists have understood law and the concept that law is ideological in particular. I have some historical knowledge of how this played out in states such as the USSR and thinkers such as Pashukanis, so I am mostly curious whether there are contemporary critical theorists who have written extensively or made an impact on the subject. Or is this not really a discussed topic nowadays?

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Marxists historically had a lot of criticism for the theories and policies of certain individual leaders, whether that be Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev or whomever.

One charge I have heard levied at those who blame Gorbachev's reforms for the collapse of the Soviet Union (such as Zubok's book Collapse) is that this kind of thinking buys into the kind of great man theory at odds with historical materialism. Yet criticism of individuals is far from uncommon for Marxists.

What place do individuals have in historical materialism and affecting world-historical forces? How did historical Marxists and harsher dialectical materialists respond to this?