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The same is true of the legal forms within which economy is always going on. If you derive the system of law from the economy, then you must see that economy never goes on, not even if two people work together, without some laws regulating their togetherness, regulating the division of what is produced by them, etc. So law is already presupposed and cannot be derived from that which is presupposed in it.
Now all this does not mean we must turn the whole situation around: that would be an idealistic interpretation of economy which is equally wrong as a materialistic interpretation of a culture out of economy. The whole thing is a total structure in which every element is mutually dependent on all other elements. Only if we consider society as such a Gestalt, a living structure, are we able to understand the relationship of the economic to the others. On this basis we go on next time.