Economy, Law, and Politics; Choudhury’s Theories and Fundamental Utopia

Abstract

Masudul  Alam Choudhury agrees that fundamental thinking to construct a new knowledge base is needed when scientific and social conditions tend to be closed and monopolistic. The construction is expected to be able to dismantle the structural veil to find an alternative foundation and format that can be expected to realize social justice. For this reason, law, economics, and social paradigm can be effective instruments. In contrast to Choudhury, Karl Marx emphasized the existence of a new, rational-material awareness that dimensioned an economic struggle based on class consciousness, historical dialectics and materialism as the choice of objectives above. This awareness can be grown contextually, by moving the oppressed to demand equality. So the legal, economic and political foundations can change. While Choudhury focuses more on the transcendental dimension of the divine (tauhid paradigm) which is interpreted comprehensively and totally to dismantle the legal, economic and social order. Thus, the legal, economic and political infrastructure rests on fairness and productivity that remains competitive. The values that are in the divine foundation are arranged in the building of law and ethics (morals) to be integrated into the institution towards the desired reconstruction. However, Choudhury’s ideas remain normative and fail to be translated. It is too utopian.