Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher and social scientist who co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 and co-founded the body of theory that became Marxism. He funded and supported Marx for decades, wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) from his own observation of Manchester factory labor, and edited the second and third volumes of Marx's Das Kapital after Marx's death.
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Who prepared the later volumes of Marx's Capital for publication?
Friedrich Engels edited the unfinished second and third volumes of Capital.
Friedrich Engels did. He spent years editing the unfinished manuscripts of volumes two and three of Capital for publication, and he also wrote a number of substantive introductions to new editions of Marx's earlier work and of his own.
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Co-authored with Marx; Engels' own 1847 Principles of Communism was a direct draft source for the final text.
Source Karl Marx (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Additional Source Friedrich Engels (Britannica)
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1. Friedrich Engels - Wikipedia (Wikipedia)
- intro: 'German philosopher, social and political theorist'
- intro: 'revolutionary socialist'
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Karl Marx (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyDrafted: Communist Manifesto, Page textQuote, Drafted: Communist Manifesto, Page text
For example, in The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels state that: “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production” ( MECW 6: 487).
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