The Holy Family (book)

During Engels' short stay in Paris in 1844, Marx suggested that they should write together a critique of the rage of their day, the Young Hegelians.

After conversing, they began drawing up plans for a book about the Young Hegelian trend of thought very popular in academic circles.

noted that it expressed socialist views since it criticized the "inadequacy of any half-measures directed at eliminating the social ailments of our time."

The Holy Family is among the earlier works of Marx and Engels which discusses the concept behind the later-coined term false consciousness.

They know that property, capital, money, wage-labor and the like are no ideal figments of the brain but very practical, very objective products of their self-estrangement.In the original German, this reads as follows:[relevant?]