The Holy Family
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Marx and Engels's first joint book, an 1845 polemic against Bruno Bauer and the Young Hegelians. Its satirical chapters on Critical Criticism mark their break with idealist philosophy and their turn to materialism.
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