Kemerovo, Russian Federation
This article describes the concept of human rights that emerged in the German Democratic Republic through the pluralism of the doctrine of East German jurists. Some scholars denied human rights in socialism while others had no consensus regarding the concept. They had different opinions on continuity / discontinuity of bourgeois and socialist human rights. Some scientists believed that these categories did not exist in reality. Others argued that socialist basic human rights were the product of the socialist revolution rather than an improved realization of inherited human rights, which revealed the discontinuity of bourgeois and socialist human rights. East German philosophers also had an idea of the unity of continuity and discontinuity. The principle of the unity of rights and obligations was of paramount importance in the concept of socialist human rights as two sides of the same subject because rights can only be realized when the citizen is entrusted with obligations. Therefore, the ideology of Marxism-Leninism did not prevent the East German researchers from developing different opinions on human rights.
human rights, German Democratic Republic, East Germany, socialism, Marxism-Leninism, basic rights, basic duties, continuity, discontinuity, principle of unity of rights and duties
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