Reddit mentions of Soviet Legal Innovation and the Law of the Western World

Ok now we're cooking. This book is about that basically.

https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion

Also relevant:

https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Legal-Innovation-Western-World/dp/0521881749
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500596

You can find those free online somewhere.

I could have just linked that at the beginning but I think it's important to think more seriously about these questions. I was referring to the American constitution and if you think about how you operationalize such a concept (which really means to define it coherently) you can think about how one would measure such a thing in the United States. Does the United States have freedom of speech? What's the relationship between the letter of the law and concrete reality? How important is the law and what does freedom of speech, if it is related to the law, relate to the withering away of the state? What is the genealogy of 'rights,' what is their material basis, and what is the limit of the concept? You can point out that every freedom in the American constitution was in the Soviet constitution and their legal system was objectively better by bourgeois liberal standards at the time period in question. But that's sort of lazy, we know socialism is superior and that liberals don't actually arrive at their ideology through reason. So who really cares what they think in their dishonestly framed questions about a theory they knows nothing about?