Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II. The Process of Circulation of Capital. Edited by Frederick Engels.

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The first English translation of the second volume of Das Kapital, published in Chicago by Charles H. Kerr Company and issued in the UK using the original sheets from the American edition bound in Swan Sonneschein’s characteristic red cloth - much scarcer than the American edition. The second volume of Kapital was originally published posthumously in German in 1885 under the editorship of Friedrich Engels. The translation was the initiative of the veteran Chicago radical publisher Charles H. Kerr (1860-1944) who had long-explored the possibility of producing a complete English translation of all three volumes of Das Kapital. In 1902 Kerr negotiated a deal with the London publisher Swan Sonneschein to become the official American distributor of the English translation of the first volume of Kapital by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling under the supervision of Engels, originally published in 1887. However, Kerr remained eager to produce editions of the second and third volumes of Kapital, still then untranslated into English either side of the Atlantic, and set about actively searching for a competent translator and the necessary funding for such a vast editorial undertaking. Kerr had initially contacted the English socialist Henry Mayers Hyndman, who had both sufficient grasp of Marxist economic theory and the financial means, but despite some initial interest from Hyndman Kerr would ultimately settle on the German-American socialist Ernest Untermann (1864-1956) as his translato

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