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The Double Movement and the Legal Form in Alan Norrie’s Crime, Reason and History
Introduction In Law and Marxism, Evgeny Pashukanis argued that the legal subject created by law is a mirror of the abstract individual under capitalism. The primary powers of this abstract individual are to enter into contracts with other, formally equal, individuals, and to own (and alienate) property. This has important political consequences that we shall…