A Contribution to the Question of the Methodology of Jurisprudence

Abstract

The CPSU Program poses to the social sciences, including Marxist jurisprudence, a task of vast historical importance: that of continuously improving the elaboration of the scientific principles of guidance to social development. Successful solution of this problem depends, to a considerable degree, upon the status of methodology, the completeness and accuracy with which the techniques and tools of research and of cognition of phenomena in the field of public law are defined. In this connection, what is most important today, when all the necessary conditions have been established for creative development of Marxist-Leninist theory, is to uproot completely the consequences of the personality cult in the field of social science and to restore and further develop the Leninist techniques in science. (1)