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GDR Marxist theoretical production in its different forms did not really feel the benefit of the renewed interest in this “disappeared country” noticeable over the last years in the public debate as well as in historiography. Nevertheless, despite the legitimization function assumed by Marxism in the GDR, it was a contradictory area, which cannot be reduced to an ossified ideology. Bibliographical devices at our disposal about agents and institutions that made GDR Marxism exist allow us to use a more balanced approach. It is notably possible to identify, beyond indeniably dogmatic views, some innovations, among which the trend of the Weltgeschichte is particularly significant.