Croce’s enthusiasm for De Man rested on shared anti-Marxism, not theoretical affinity.

Evidence

Henri De Man, Belgian Social-Democrat, was the author of a book Au dela du Marxisms (“Beyond Marxism”), frequently referred to and criticised in the Quaderni (see in particular MS, pp. 111-114). Croce’s “practical” reason for enthusiasm for De Man lies in their shared opposition to revolutionary Marxism, although strictly speaking Crocean philosophy denies a serious theoretical role to ideological and instrumental thought such as De Man’s. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2584

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