Abstract In this paper we analyse the literature regarding Critical Knowledge Management (CKM). We define CKM as a branch of the Knowledge Management science that deals with marginal and controversial social matters like race, gender, sexism, LGBT and so on. Critical KM is therefore a “twin sister” of Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) in the bigger field of the analysis of Intangibles. We perform a Literature Review based on the Systematic Literature procedures and using the B-On Database. We conclude that the analysis of issues related to Critical KM is still very scarce and very recent. It seems that being KM a relative new science, social issues have been slow to be addressed; furthermore, KM science has been too much linked with companies and even corporations and with productivity and efficiency. All this creates a bias in the field and makes that, for now Critical KM has been virtually inexistent. We believe that as long as KM will become more and more an important scientific field social issues as those addressed in the CKM field will become major fields of research.