ABSTRACT
The sociology of law deals with law as a social phenomenon. Law is related to the world of values. In law certain values are embodied in and act on human behavior. The theoretical system of the sociology of law would be incomplete if it did not deal with the objections of anarchists to law as such and with their plans for displacing legal order once and for all. The recurrence of the total negation of law is a sociologically relevant fact. Extreme contrasts are combined in its theoretical framework. Three main trends may be distinguished: anarchism in the narrow or pure sense of the term, orthodox Marxism in its extreme form, and anarcho-syndicalism. The basis of pure anarchism is its intense aversion to violence; not only illegal force, but even force displayed in the name of the law seems repugnant to it. The assertion that orthodox Marxism in its extreme forms approaches the ideas of anarchism may seem a paradox.
