The second and the third volumes d’O capital

Abstract

The second and third volumes of Capital had the same fate as the first. Marx hoped to be able to publish them soon after this one, but many years passed and he alone was unable to complete them for printing. New studies, increasingly profound and urgent, long illnesses and finally death prevented him from finishing the entire work, and it was Engels who he edited these two volumes based on unpublished manuscripts left by his friend. There were notes, sketches, notes, sometimes entire completed chapters, sometimes brief observations made in passing as a researcher does for his personal understanding – a powerful intellectual work that, with prolonged interruptions, covered the broad period from 1861 to 1878.