Marxist Perspective on History of Law and Civil Disobedience

***EXCLUSIVE TO RUMBLE *** I this video I explain the Marxist perspective on Law and Civil Disobedience as contextualized by Historical Materialism.Show more

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” - Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome.

This video is not meant to encourage reckless law breaking. Responsible Civil Disobedience (as in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956) is only justified for valid reasons. Law is necessary, but Law must be subordinate to Human and Civil Rights. Law exists to serve Man, man does not exist to serve Law.

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https://christiananarchistheretic.blogspot.com/p/a-peoples-history-of-bus-boycotts.html

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." /// U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

"Bearing in mind as its fundamental problem the abolition of the exploitation of men by men, the entire abolition of the division of the people into classes, the suppression of exploiters, the establishment of a socialist society, and the victory of socialism in all lands, the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies further resolves: (a) For the purpose of attaining the socialization of land, all private property in land is abolished, and the entire land is declared to be national property and is to be apportioned among agriculturists without compensation of the former owners, to the measure of each one's ability to till it. (b) All forests, treasures of the earth, and waters of general public utility, all equipment whether animate or inanimate, model farms and agricultural enterprises, are declared to be national property. (c) As a first step toward complete transfer of ownership to the Soviet Republic of all factories, mills, mines, railways, and other means of production and transportation, the soviet law for the control of workmen and the establishment of a Supreme Soviet of National Economy is hereby confirmed so as to insure the power of the workers over the exploiters. (d) With reference to international banking and finance, the Third Congress of Soviets is discussing the soviet decree regarding the annulment of loans made by the Government of the Czar, by landowners and the bourgeoisie, and it trust that the Soviet Government will firmly follow this course until the final victory of the international workers' revolt against the oppression of capital. (e) The transfer of all banks to the ownership of the Workers' and Peasants' Government, as one of the conditions of the liberation of the toiling masses from the yoke of capital, is confirmed. (f) Universal obligation to work is introduced for the purpose of eliminating the parasitic strata of society and organizing the economic life of the country. (g) For the purpose of securing the working class in the possession of complete power, and in order to eliminate all possibility of restoring the power of the exploiters, it is decreed that all workers be armed, and that a Socialist Red Army be organized and the propertied class disarmed." /// Constitution of the Soviet Republic. 1918. Article One. Declaration of The Rights of the Laboring and Exploited People.

Ref.

Roman Law: https://www.worldhistory.org/Corpus_Juris_Civilis/
Feudal Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Uppland
Liberalism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Napoleonic-Code
American Revolution: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
proto-Socialism: https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/constitution/1918/index.htm