Abstract
The present work aims to analyze from a legal critical perspective the concept of the rule of law as an element of the legal discourse of capital, as well as to show the concrete form that the organization of the rule of law takes under dependent conditions. In order to carry out the above, it is structured in three sections, the first one delves into the link between the state, law and relations of production in capitalist modernity; The second section deals with the conformation, from the dominant capitalist ideology, of the concept of the rule of law and, in the last section, the specific characteristics of the materialization of the concept of the rule of law in the Latin American dependent condition are analyzed.
Keywords:
Legal Critical Theory; Dependency Theory; Rule of Law; Legal Ideology; Latin-America