“A thoroughly critical overview of Marx’s and Engels’s work is presented. Their analysis of power and domination, their disapproval of unequal distribution, anthropological reflections on (self-)alienation, the questioning of private ownership of the means of production, the analysis of the ‘vulgar economy,’ a materialist view of the significance of social relations and related cultural hegemony in bourgeois society, as well as the eschatological-sounding preliminary reflections on a good, today necessarily ecosocialist society are in the foreground. Their approach is seen as a plural counterpoint to deconstructivist, language-focused, gender and other aspects that are of course also important, and which often dominate in the socio-critical camp today.” (H. Peukert)