What is the role of the party and the plan?

The concept: the socialist legal system is the Soviet-type legal order — law conceived as an instrument of the ruling (working) class and its party, a tool for building socialism rather than a neutral framework above classes: public ownership's economy, the plan's primacy, the party's supremacy over all institutions (including courts), "socialist legality" (legality within the revolution's purposes) in place of the rule of law, and rights as granted-and-conditioned rather than innate limits on the state. Marx's base-superstructure theory is the parent: law as superstructure serving the economic base; Lenin's state-and-revolution practice the founder: the dictatorship of the proletariat wielding law as "a cudgel" (Lenin's honest phrase — law as will, not constraint).Origin and development (the arc):1. 1917–1924 (the revolutionary founding): the tsarist system's destruction; the decrees on peace, land, courts; the early idealism (Pashukanis's "law's withering away" theory — commodity-exchange law's Marxism; the comrade courts and revolutionary tribunals);2. 1924–1953 (Stalin's construction): the "socialist legality" doctrine's hardening (Vyshinsky's definition — law as the will of the ruling class raised to statute); the 1936 "Stalin Constitution" — the world's most generous paper rights beside the terror's reality (the era's great lesson in constitution-without-constitutionalism — IRD/ConLaw's cross-reference); the economic-law edifice: the plan, state enterprises' khozraschet, labour discipline's codes;3. 1953–1985 (the mature system): the Soviet family's codification (the 1960 RSFSR Criminal Code, the…