What would a just legal system even look like in a socialist society? It seems like the legal system under capitalism still holds on to a lot of weird feudal stuff, so it’s kind of hard for me to get my head around what would come after this, if we completely destroyed the bourgeois legal system.
I have no education in law and it all seems intentionally opaque, so I feel like I can’t even begin to imagine an alternative.
One of the central things I think needs to go is the fetishization of "justice is blind" - weighing both sides of a dispute equally fundamentally ignores the hierarchies inherently present in society, and of of course misses how capital is the ultimate arbiter to any legal proceeding.
Change 1 would be no private lawyers, since it's paying for an undue advantage in what should be a fair legal dispute.
Change 2 is that the legal system should be biased, but biased against those with more power. A tenant should be given more leeway over their landlord, an employee over their employer, a citizen over a cop,
a g*mer over everyone else. We can't have equality so long as we are reinforcing existing modes of oppression in every institution.