Q. Who among the following is known to have edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Karl Marx’s death?
Answer: Friedrich Engels
Notes: Friedrich Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Karl Marx's death. The first volume was published in 1867, but Marx died before completing the second and third volumes. Engels completed the volumes from Marx's notes and published them posthumously in 1885 and 1894.
Das Kapital is a four-volume book that analyzes the capitalist mode of production in England. Marx's purpose was to reveal the economic law of motion of modern society. It is the most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.
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