Gramsci rejects Feuerbachian non-dialectical materialism as a philosophical position

Evidence

The original German is in the form of a pun, “der Mensch ist [is] was er isst [eats]”. Gramsci’s hostility to philosophical materialism of the Feuerbachian non-dialectical type involves him here also in some superficial point-scoring against Bordiga. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2523

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the specific target of Gramsci’s anti-materialism: Feuerbachian, non-dialectical materialism, as distinct from historical materialism.
• XREF: Connects to the Foundations toolkit’s treatment of base/superstructure and the reductionism that later cultural studies and Islamophobia scholarship explicitly argue against. — connects to: Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1348; Gramsci attacked empiricism and positivism masked as materialism in Bukharin’s Manual; Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1348; Gramsci attacked empiricism and positivism masked as materialism in Bukharin’s Manual; Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2774