To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birthday, the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx and Engels, 2017) (hereinafter, MEGA2 I/5 volume) was published in November 2017, supported by the Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) and in the charge of Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW). This volume has attracted much attention as it includes Die deutsche Ideologie, or The German Ideology, which is known as the birthplace of historical materialism. The publica