Also known as “Struvism”, a bourgeois reformist trend of thought that was popular among Russian bourgeois intellectuals in the late 19th century under the banner of Marxism. “Legal Marxism” quoted Marxist words, but it always distorted and vulgarized Marxist principles. “Legal Marxism” opposes Marx’s labor theory of value and surplus value and advocates the vulgar political economy of Neo-Kantianism. It advocates abandoning the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat, replacing the revolutionary Marxism with the theory of reforming the bourgeois society, replacing historical materialism with economic materialism, and regarded capitalism as the highest stage of social development. The essence of “legal Marxism” was the promotion of bourgeois reformism, which was criticized by Marxists since it came into being…
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