A Study On Engels' Thought Of Philosophy Of Law In His Old Age

What the philosophy of law shows is the concern and response of the philosophy facing fairness and justice in a particular era. Marxist philosophy of law relys on and displays in the time of "human liberation".What his reality points is the system of private capitalist property and bourgeoisie legal system's historical limitation.Engels in his later years and the specific historic conditions, defended and developed the Marxist Philosophy of law .He criticized firmly all kinds of non-Marxist philosophy of law which wanted to infiltrated into the labor's movement and leaded the legal practice of the proletariat scientificlly.This article has five parts:The first part is foreword. This part beginning from the Marxist philosophy of law's the background of the history and theroies explains the theoric dimensions of the Marxist philosophy of law as well as Engels'characteristics and the theoretical basis of the philosophy of law in his later years.The second part discusses the Engels'basic viewpoints of the interpretation and development about Marxist philosophy of law, including the dialectical relationships between the legal system and economic base and the legal system and other superstructure's factors .The third part is Engels'criticial thought of philosophy of law in his later years. This part includes Engels'criticism of the various non-Marxist philosophy of law in the field of philosophy of law.That helps us further understand the Engels'thought of philosophy of law.The fourth part taking the proletariat historical practice as a center, discusses Engels how to treat the proletariat to request of the right and how to treat the relationship between the illegal struggle and the legitimate struggle in his later years . The fifth part is the end of the artice. After we reviewed the development of Marxist philosophy of law in a brief way, we can further explore Marxist philosophy of law's values of theory and practice in the context of history.