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The only real common ground between Marx and Feuerbach is the desire, once shared, to give Hegel’s philosophy a materialistic overhaul. Feuerbach deliberately adopted an ontological approach, replacing Hegel’s “absolute knowing” by the assumption of an “absolute being,” a divinization of man which gradually led him to a rudimentary naturalistic materialism. Marx, on the other hand, refrained from venturing into metaphysical controversies and did not seek to rid himself of Hegelian dialectics. He instead revisited and reworked Hegel’s dialectical categories, in order to give a materialistic account of Tätigkeit, the activity through which real individuals, within the framework of social relations, produce their conditions of existence.