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>Justin: A socialist law would have different
>purposes.
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>^^^^^
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>CB: What purposes would a socialist law have ?
First of all, to maintain the social order and the mode of production my establishing and enforcing socialist property relations, protecting oublic ownership of productive assets, democratic control of investment, worker control of production, and prohibiting wage labor. Beyond that, the usual, establishing rights and responsibilities compatible with socialism, resolving disputes, providing a vehicle for marriage, contracts, and other things people want or needto make society run. Also controlling crime.
>Would socialist law be part of a socialist state ?
Yes. A liberal democratic one in the sense specified.
>Would the socialist state be a repressive apparatus ( i.e. have guns)
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It would have a monopoly on the use of force within its territorial jurisdiction, yes. One hopes that, being liberal democratic, it would not _be_ a repressive apparatus, jsut have one that it couldcall on if needed to arrest criminals and enforce judgments in the last resort.
jks
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