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1 Robert D. Crane, The Beginnings of Marxist Space Jurisprudence 1 (1963)

handle is hein.space/bmsj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: January, 1963

The Beginnings of Marxist Space Jurisprudence?
by Robert D. Crane
American Journal of International Law, April '63
During the first five years of the space age Soviet space law
developed from a collection of principles, hastily adopted for the
political defense of Soviet space activities, into a body of doctrine
designed to support a Soviet political space offensive.1 During 1962
the first indications appeared that Soviet space law was developing
into an instrument to support the shift of this offensive from the
political into the military realm. The most significant indications of
this shift were: 1) the refinement and even the rejection of the previous
Soviet position that military uses of space are illegal, and 2) the
development of a new theory of the interaction of modern technology
and international law, which provides for the use of Communist
technology to enforce and consolidate a new progressive interna-
tional law. This new theory may have profound consequences for
the further development of a general Marxist-Leninist theory of
1 See Robert D. Crane, Soviet Attitude Toward International
Space Law, AJIL, Summer, 1962, pp. 685-723; and Law and Strategy
in Space, Orbis, Summer, 1962.

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