Legal naturalism is a term coined by Olufemi Taiwo to describe a current in the social philosophy of Karl Marx which can be interpreted as one of natural law.
Taiwo considered it the manifestation of Natural Law in a dialectical materialist context.
The concept recognizes the existence of legal priorities or principles, which form an intrinsic part of an economic system.
[1] Taiwo distinguished legal naturalism from Marxism by faulting the latter's bifurcation of the canon between the economic "substructure" of a society and the humanitarian, moral, cultural "superstructure".
[3] The theory is distinctive from other theories under naturalism in the sense that it views natural law as part of social formation or mode of production.