Anton Menger von Wolfensgrün was an Austrian legal theorist and social philosopher, born in 1841 in Galicia and died in 1906 in Rome. He taught civil procedural law at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1899, serving as vice chancellor from 1895 to 1896, and was the brother of the economist Carl Menger. In his 1886 work The Right to the Whole Produce of Labor he argued that law is fundamentally a gauge of social power relations rather than an expression of natural law, grounding socialist theory in legal analysis in a way that drew responses from Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky.
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RoleJuridical expert and social theorist 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction BirthplaceManiów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship 2 Place of Death Classification
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How did Anton Menger's view of law differ from natural law and from Marx?
Menger rejected natural law and treated law as a gauge of societal power relations.
Menger dismissed natural law as the basis of positive law. He argued instead that the backbone of law was merely a gauge of societal power relations. His legal interests are described as different from those of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in how they treated theoretical legal questions, and Engels and Karl Kautsky both tried to grapple with his 1886 attacks on Marx's Das Kapital and his project of grounding socialism in legal theory.
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Anton Menger von Wolfensgrün (12 September 1841, Maniowy - now under the Czorsztyn Lake, Galicia - 6 February 1906, Rome), was an Austrian juridical expert and social theorist who aside from his collegiate works predominantly dedicated himself to propagating socialist literature on juridical grounds.
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He is the author of "The Right to the Whole Produce of Labor", "The Civil Law and the Poor" among others.
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Wikidata Q428255, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1841
Wikidata Q428255, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1841-09-12
Wikidata Q428255, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1906
Wikidata Q428255, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1906-02-06
Wikidata Q428255, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Maniów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Wikidata Q428255, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Rome
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