Consent, Self-Government and Obligation
Consent, Self-Government and Obligation

Summary/Abstract: This paper raises the age-old problem of the citizen‘s obligation to the state, but in a radical framework, where all citizens fully participate in the making of law, and where all citizens enjoy maximum economic and social equality. The author is concerned with the citizen’s attitude to law under a model of democratic socialism, to discover whether radical theory can justify a moral obligation to obey the law where liberal theory fails. This question will be analyzed from the perspective of a socialist theory of law which, while critical of Marxism’s typically reductionist approach to legal issues, draws on Marxist ideas informulating an alternative.

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