Attacks on vulgar economism are often mistaken for critiques of Marxism itself
Evidence
It often happens that people combat historical economism in the belief that they are attacking historical materialism. … In short, it includes most of the more banal polemical gibes that are directed against the philosophy of praxis; but the real target of the polemic is crude economism of Loria’s kind. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 711
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes historical economism (the crude position being attacked) from historical materialism (the actual Marxist philosophy), a distinction the reader needs for the toolkit.
- XREF: connects to: Anti-Jameson criticism gets co-opted by anti-Marxist circles regardless of intent — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 54; Anti-disciplinary critique of Marxism applies equally to socialist feminism
Related
- For Gramsci, hegemony is the antidote to vulgar economism. (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Jameson criticism gets co-opted by anti-Marxist circles regardless of intent (similarity 0.81)
- Marxism is essentially Hegel’s philosophy combined with Ricardo’s economics. (similarity 0.80)
- Marx refused to reduce history to a single ultimate economic cause (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-disciplinary critique of Marxism applies equally to socialist feminism (similarity 0.78)