Since the 1960s, the reception of Marx has led to the emergence of initial works that engage in a critical reading of objects and methods within the framework of the Critical Theory of Horkheimer and Adorno. Helmut Reichelt's "Zur logischen Struktur des Kapitalbegriffs bei Karl Marx" (1968) became a classic of this early period of value-critical writings. In his book, first published in 2008, he further explores a confrontation with fundamental categories and concepts of the social sciences in the broadest sense - structure, action, subjectivity. Reichelt's "Neue Marx-Lektüre" addresses significant explanatory deficits - such as the justification of social unity and generality - in Marx's value theory, which he seeks to correct through the tacit introduction of an unspecified concept of validity. A concept of validity that encompasses both objectivity and...