Anwar Shaikh, Marx’s Theory of Value and the Transformation Problem: Mathematical Appendix (1971)

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This text is an appendix to Anwar Shaikh, “Marx’s Theory of Value and the ‘Transformation Problem”’, in Jesse Schwartz (ed.), The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism (Santa Monica: Goodyear Publishing, 1971), pp. 106-39. Other than through a link on the “Real Economics” webpage, I am unaware of its publication elsewhere. The text accessible at this link is a copy of a manually-typed and hand-annotated original; since it is such a seminal contribution to a crucially important debate, I have decided to retypeset it in more legible form.

Dave Bailey, The Socialist Revolution East and West: A Conspectus (1979)

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This text is an internal discussion document written by a leading member of the International Marxist Group in Britain in the late 1970s. The document, in barely legible photocopied form, circulated among former members of the successor organisations to the IMG in the early 1990s. The original document had no title; “The Socialist Revolution East and West: A Conspectus” is my addition.

The reason why the text is important is set out in a Presentation (written in 2001) that appears at the beginning of the document. An assessment of the text, of its strengths and weaknesses, written at the same time as the Presentation, is included as an Afterword.

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Anwar Shaikh, Marx’s Theory of Value and the Transformation Problem: Mathematical Appendix (1971)

Dave Bailey, The Socialist Revolution East and West: A Conspectus (1979)