Wolfgang Fritz Haug is Professor of Philosophy (retired) at the Free University Berlin. He has published monographs on Philosophy of Praxis, High-tech Capitalism, and Plural Marxism. His Critique of Commodity Aesthetics appeared in English in 1986.

Frigga Haug is Professor of Sociology (retired) at Hamburg University. She has published monographs on Marxism-Feminism and Rosa Luxemburg. She is the author of Female Sexualization (1987) and Beyond female masochism: memory-work and politics (1980).

Peter Jehle is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Potsdam University. He is co-editor of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks in German and has published monographs on Gramsci, Werner Krauss, and Cultural Hegemony in the French and Spanish Enlightenment.

Wolfgang Küttler (1936-2024) led the department Theory and Methodology of Historical Science at the Central Institute for History (Academy of Sciences, GDR). He published many monographs on formation theory in the late Karl Marx and in Lenin, on the philosophy of history and methodology of historiography.

Oliver Walkenhorst worked as a scientist from 2002 to 2013 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. From 2008 to 2021 he was an editorial board member of the journal Das Argument. Since 2007, he is an editorial board member, since 2013 coordinator, and since 2023 co-editor of the HKWM.