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Capitalism and the Rule of Law: Precondition or Contradiction?

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Richard L. Abel
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Debate: Marxism and the Rule of Law
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , Fall 1990 , pp. 685 - 697
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1990 

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1 The sophomoric version was offered last year: Francis Fukuyama, Have We Reached the End of History? (Santa Monica, Cal.: Rand Corp., 1989). Those who need a warning against facile eschatology might look back a quarter of a century at Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (New York: Free Press, 1965).Google Scholar

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