The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, originally published in Science and Society in the early 1950s, is one of the most famous episodes in the development of Marxist historiography since the war. It ranged such distinguished contributors as Maurice Dobb, Paul Sweezy, Kohachiro Takhashi and Christopher Hill against each other in a common, critical discussion. The complete text of the original debate was first published by Verso, to which ...