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This article discusses Marxist legal theory and how it has been applied in communist
countries that have claimed Marxism as their official ideology. It investigates whether the
undercurrent of violence and lawlessness constantly exhibited by the actual behaviour of
Marxist regimes may in fact be a natural consequence of Marxist theory itself. Indeed, Marx
viewed laws basically in terms of guaranteeing and justifying class oppression, thus
advancing the position that laws in a socialist state must be nothing more than the imposition
(by a political elite) of the dictatorship of the proletariat.