ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the debt state communism, as both ideology and practise, owes to a history of legal and political thought situated historically before and ideologically beyond if not at odds with it. It explores the demise of the revolution and its retreat within the state apparatus and within the forms legated by law's triumphal and monumental history. The book suggests that a starting point in the direction might be to take a closer look at the ways in which authoritarian movements were entangled in a history of the suspension of the law. It aims to draw attention to the obscure part of the revolutionary project, that is the theoretical scarcity in approaching the law in relation to the machinery of the state.
