Criticism of value-form theory

Especially during the last half century, there have been many critical appraisals of Karl Marx's ideas about the form of value in capitalist society. Marx himself provided a starting point for the scholarly controversy when he claimed that Capital, Volume I was not difficult to understand, "with the exception of the section on the form of value." Friedrich Engels argued in his Anti-Dühring polemic of 1878 (when Marx was still alive) that "The value form of products...

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