Karl Reitter and Stefan Kraft argue in their preface that the strict separation between the young wild and the old mature Marx leads to nowhere. However, they have decided to publish a selection of Marx early works. Karl Reitter explains in this first part of the interview the conditions under which Marx early works were written. He then describes how these early works can be determined without artificially exaggerating the strict separation between the young wild and the old Marx.

The blurb of the mentioned book by Karl Reitter and Stefan Kraft says that Karl Marx engaged in "a radical dispute with wage labor", and that he was as much a "critic of the state". Karl Reitter describes in this second part of the interview how Marx talked about wage labor, the state and politics in his early works.

An infamous hypothesis on the difference between the young and the old Marx was formulated by Louis Althusser. He assumes an "epistomological rupture" in Marx's works, i.e. he (schematically) divides Marx's works into a hegelian-philosophical early work and a later essentially scientific work that came to completion in the volumes of "Capital".

A further concern of the preface is to defend Marx against his followers in their orthodox vests. It argues strongly against the view of Marx as the founder of a however defined meta-philosophy called dialectical materialism. In part 4 Karl Reitter speaks about the bogey "dialectical materialism" and shows how it does not live up to the multilayered early works of Marx in any way.

In No. 17 of the magazine Grundrisse Karl Reitter presents what he calls an "alternative to the interpretation of value critique". He explains the essentials of his interpretation of capital.

Karl Reitter is currently working at a new book on Marx' works. It particularly wants to shed more light on the relation of Spinoza and Marx. In this last part of the video interview, Karl Reitter gives a short preview on the topics and questions of his new book project.