Historical materialism inherits and historicizes idealism’s claim that reality is a human creation

Evidence

Without doubt the subjectivist conception is proper to modern philosophy in its most achieved and advanced form, in that it gave birth to, and was superseded by, historical materialism, a philosophy which, in its theory of superstructures, poses in realistic and historicist terms what traditional philosophy expressed in a speculative form. A demonstration of this point, which is hardly referred to in the book, would have the greatest cultural significance because it would put an end to a whole series of futile and irrelevant discussions and permit an organic development of the philosophy of praxis even to the point of it becoming the hegemonic exponent of high culture. It is surprising that there has been no proper affirmation and development of the connection between the idealist assertion of the reality of the world as a creation of the human spirit and the affirmation made by the philosophy of praxis of the historicity and transience of ideologies on the grounds that ideologies are expressions of the structure and are modified by modifications of the structure . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1570

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that the philosophy of praxis translates the idealist claim ‘the world is a creation of the human spirit’ into the historicist thesis that ideologies are expressions of the structure, modified as the structure changes.
• XREF: This genealogy — idealism superseded by historical materialism — connects forward to how Islamophobia scholars read Orientalism’s ‘world as construct’ into a materialist account of racism-as-structure. — connects to: Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical; Historical materialism refutes empiricism’s compartmentalizing thought, not German idealism’s speculative totalizing — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 193; Historical materialism superseded subjectivist philosophy by posing its questions historicist terms — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1570 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing later: whether Gramsci elsewhere fleshes out this specific Hegel-to-praxis inheritance beyond the notes.

Broader Connections

• Historical materialism superseded subjectivist philosophy by posing its questions historicist terms #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1570
• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical #expands (0.78)
• Objectivity is constituted in relation to historically situated humanity, not apart from it #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1585
• Historical materialism refutes empiricism’s compartmentalizing thought, not German idealism’s speculative totalizing #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 193
• Historical materialism requires no metaphysical-materialist foundation #corroborates (0.72)