The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Critique. Against
Bruno Bauer and Co. is the first joint work of Karl Marx
and Frederick Engels. At the end of August 1844 Marx and
Engels met in Paris and their meeting was the beginning
of their joint creative work in all fields of theoretical and
practical revolutionary activity. By this time Marx and Engels
had completed the transition from idealism to materialism
and from revolutionary democratism to communism.
The polemic The Holy Family was written in Paris in autumn 1844. It reflects the progress in the formation of Marx and Engels's revolutionary materialistic world outlook