Prominent adherents of value criticism include Robert Kurz, Moishe Postone and Jean-Marie Vincent [fr].
From this, they conclude that all actually existing "socialisms" thus far have been in essence forms of state-led capitalism (nachholenden Modernisierung), where production still followed capitalistic principles.
This interpretation, which rejects the traditional Marxist–Leninist point of view, is defended in the early text from 1999: Manifesto Against Labour.
The so-called critique of value-dissociation [2] (in German called "Wertabspaltungskritik") includes not only precise descriptions of the "abstract and fetishized character of modern domination",[3] but also seeks to explain why irrational attitudes are delegated to women, while men are counted as relatively rational actors in the capitalistic society.
Publishers of value criticism in Germany are the Krisis group and Exit!, to both of which Robert Kurz made crucial contributions.