Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired

Evidence

The interest and importance of Gramsci’s critique are two-fold. In the first place Bukharin, despite his subsequent disgrace, represented an influential current within orthodox Marxism. He was in many ways the inheritor of a materialist tradition which flourished as much in Social-Democratic circles as within the Communist movement and whose influence has survived to this day. … Gramsci’s Marxism was essentially critical. For that reason he could not be content with any doctrine which attempted to reduce Marxism to the status of a positive science—in Bukharin’s case a “sociology”—separating the thing known from the process whereby knowledge is acquired. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1348

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the critical-theory toolkit: the refusal to separate the known from the process of knowing is Gramsci’s version of the theory/practice unity that grounds later Islamophobia critique of positivist social science.