Against the background that Marx's deliberations on technology are hardly examined separately from his theory of economy and from the modes of production in capitalism, the article identifies some dimensions of his thinking that can be considered his 'philosophy of technology'. In a first step, some of the passages in Hegel's work will be commented, where Hegel elaborates his thoughts on `means' and 'tools', since Hegel is one of Marx's main sources. Secondly, in a close reading of Das Kapital and of the so called 'machine fragment', core topics of Marx's philosophy of technology are presented and discussed. Thirdly, some lines to later approaches are drawn, in order to demonstrate that Marx discovered, in an impressive manner, central 'problems' of technology, but he developed his philosophy of technology only rudimentarily.
