What Marx said above tells us: (1) legal freedom is freedom expressed in the form of law; Law may be the embodiment of freedom, or it may be the embodiment of non-freedom. The law that embodies freedom is man's law, and the law that embodies non-freedom is animal's law. (2) On the premise that freedom is legal, the more vivid and full various freedoms are, the more legal they are. (3) Whether the law can play the role of positive law depends on whether the unconscious laws of nature are transformed into conscious laws of the state. In this way, the law can play a real legal role, otherwise, the law cannot play a real legal role. (4) The real law is the law that truly realizes human freedom. (5) The existence of freedom in law is universal and theoretical, and does not depend on the arbitrariness of individuals. (6) Code is the bible of human freedom, and it is the foundation, criterion and guarantee of human freedom.
(c) the law is subject to freedom
Marx said: "Law is shrinking in the face of human life, that is, free life." "Law is not a means to suppress freedom, just as the law of gravity is not a means to stop motion." These two sentences of Marx solved two major problems in the relationship between law and freedom, that is, can law contradict freedom? Can law be a means to suppress freedom? The answer is very clear: law cannot contradict freedom. If it does, it should be law, not freedom. Law cannot be a means to suppress freedom, and law cannot prevent the existence and realization of freedom.
Of course, the fact that the law does not suppress freedom does not mean that the law does not force members of society. If the law does not force members of society, then freedom cannot really exist or be realized. It can be said that for the purpose of freedom, it is necessary for the law to impose certain coercion on members of society. Only for the sake of freedom can the law force members of society. Marx pointed out clearly long ago: "Only when people's actual behavior shows that people no longer abide by the natural law of freedom, this natural law of freedom, which is manifested in national laws, forces people to become free people."
To sum up, in Marx's view, (1) law cannot contradict freedom. (2) Law is not a means to suppress freedom. (3) If there is a conflict between law and freedom, the law should retreat. (4) When people's actual behavior shows that people no longer abide by the natural laws of freedom, the natural laws of freedom embodied in national laws give people compulsion. (5) The premise that the law gives people coercive power is that someone's actual behavior has shown that he no longer abides by the laws that embody the natural laws of freedom, not that someone's thoughts do not abide by the laws. (6) The purpose of forcing people by law is to make people free by making them not free, and its ultimate goal is to rely on freedom.