The Holy Family, a book written by Marx and Engels in November 1844, is a critique on the Young Hegelians and their trend of thought, which is very popular in academic circles at this time.

The title is a suggestion by the publisher and is meant as a sarcastic reference to the Bauer Brothers and their supporters.

The book will create a controversy with much of the press and cause Bruno Bauer to attempt refuting the book in an article published in Wigand's Vierteljahrsschrift in 1845.

Bauer will claim that Marx and Engels misunderstood what he was trying to say.

Marx will later reply to his response with his own article published in the journal Gesellschaftsspiegel in January 1846.

Marx will also discuss the argument in chapter two of The German Ideology.