Capital: a critique of political economy (Vol.2)

The second volume of Capital was put in shape and finally edited by Frederick Engels after the death of Karl Marx. The first German edition of it appeared in 1885. A second German edition, that of 1893, was likewise propared by Engels. The present English edition follows the German 1893 ed ition carefully checked with the manuscript edited by Engels and now preserved at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the C.C., C.P.S.U. The few misprints and inaccuracies in the text, in figures and bibliographical data discovered in the 1893 edition, have been corrected.

The book includes Engels's Prefaces to the first and second German editions of Capital, Volume II, and is provided with bibliographical, name, and subject indexes. All quotations from English and American authors have been checked with the original sources.
An effort has been made to preserve in this volume the terminology elaborated in the Engels-authorised English trans lation of the first volume of Capital. Extensive use has been made of the English translation of the second volume of Capital published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, 1919. All quotations from the English text of the first volume of Capital refer to the publication: Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954.