ABSTRACT
For a long time there were only abridged Turkish translations of the Grundrisse. These were either based on Marx’s ‘Introduction’ (Marx 1970a, 1970b) or on the ‘Chapter on Capital’, specifically the section on ‘Forms which Precede Capitalist Production’ (Marx 1967). The latter selection on pre-capitalist formations was relevant to the debate on relations of production under the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and hence to the political strategy of the left.
