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Renner, Karl (1870–1950)

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10.4324/9780415249126-T049-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-T049-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/renner-karl-1870-1950/v-1

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Karl Renner was a leading contributor to democratic-socialist legal theory within the Neo-Kantian ‘Austro-Marxist’ interpretation of socialism that developed in late nineteenth-century Vienna. For Renner and his associates, law is a fundamental and universal institution in any ordered human society. Given the universal necessity of law, the development of socialism may well proceed in an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary manner – and certainly, within the context of Viennese social democracy, it would proceed better by evolution.

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Kinsey, Richard and Neil MacCormick. Renner, Karl (1870–1950), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-T049-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/renner-karl-1870-1950/v-1.
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