Frederick Engels on Capital

Frederick Engels on “Capital”

Synopsis, Reviews and Supplementary Material

The works collected here are but a small part of what Engels wrote in connection Marx’s Capital. For over half a century, Engels’ creative activity was closely interwoven with that of Marx. The correspondence of the founders of Marxism shows the extremely active share Engels had in the elaboration of a number of the most important propositions of Capital and what a constant help he was to Marx by his advice, his factual information and his critical remarks.

Many of Engel’s works are devoted to the development and substantiation of the basic propositions of the Marxian doctrine. Engels’ long years of personal collaboration with Marx were followed by the enormous work of publishing the last two volumes of Capital left by the author in manuscript form, new editions of the first volume, and several other works by Marx. A number of prefaces written by Engels to those of Marx’s works which he published are devoted to the defence of Marx’s doctrine against its enemies.