Nowadays, the reflection on the relationship between Marx’s critique of law and historical materialism has no more content than “law and state are the forms of bourgeois society”, and “the historical necessity of the existence of law and state and the historical inevitability of their disappearance”. As a result, some well-known interpretations of historical materialism seem to demonstrate a nihilistic attitude towards the concept of law and justice. Moreover, theoretical reflections and practical studies on socialist legal principles have failed to fully comprehend their social-historical content and only provide a mixture of forms and concepts. Thus, to discuss the current dilemma in Marx’s critique of law by returning to real things themselves and prepare for the development of the world, it is essential to first review the correct ways of questioning and the fundamental methods of reasoning in the history of interpretation of historical materialism.