Il diritto nella concezione materialistica della storia

This essay represents an attempt, although not exhaustive, to clarify some theories and practices of law derived from the thougth of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Il’ič Ul’janov (Lenin). After a short summary of the “materialist conception of law” contained in some works of this authors, I will focus on some interpretations developed during the 1920s and the 1930s by some soviet (or filo-soviet) jurists and by some intellectuals from the Frankfurt School. After that, I will consider some theories of the post-world war II era from the most various areas of study: the “militant legal activity”, the rethink of Frankfurt theories, the Capital-logic interpretation and the state capitalism theory