Marx and Labor Law: The class struggle, the legal arena, and the revolution

This article discusses the relation between Marx and the emerging labor law. The study shows that Marx points out the limitations of the legal arena, at the same time as he considers it as a stage of class struggle. According to Marx, it is crucial to fight for the reduction of the working day, as well as for legal regulation. However, at best he sees such struggles as part of the preparation of the revolutionary terrain in order to suppress the capitalist society, the law, and the centrality of the productive activity in the life of the human in the bourgeois society. Therefore, when Marx advocates for a radical reduction of the working day, he is not referring to a struggle in the legal arena, but a substantive transformation of production.

Keywords:
Marx; Labor law; Class struggle