Abstract: The cultural criticism entailed in Marx and Engels’ tragedy view is directed toward all the existing and coming things,and it covers three criticism dimensionality.Starting from the multiple inner relationship between tragedy and politics,economy,and history,Marx and Engels’ tragedy view illustrated the nature of tragedy and constructed their own theory of social criticism.By exposing that human existence is self-contradictory and of antinomy,their tragedy view showed another space of possibility,turning outer value-criticism to historical self-criticism,thus realized criticism to capitalist society and its ideology and culture.

Key words: Marx, Engels, tragedy view, cultural criticism, contemporary significance