Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index.
Young Marx, young Engels extracts. Marx, the student. The trial of Hegelianism. On social morality and the early Engels. The experience of law -- Law in "Historical materialism" extracts -- Law and economic relations extracts. Law and the transition to capitalism. Law and bourgeois economic interests. Law and property relations. Regulation of labour -- Ideology extracts. The form of ideology. The effectivity of ideology. The content of ideology. Legal thought. Lawyers -- The state, law and crime extracts. The state and the law. Law and repression. Crime and criminality. Punishment -- Law and politics extracts. The struggle for the constitution. The uses of law.