Historicism applied to itself threatens the convictions needed for political action

Evidence

If the philosophy of praxis affirms theoretically that every “truth” believed to be eternal and absolute has had practical origins and has represented a “provisional” value (historicity of every conception of the world and of life), it is still very difficult to make people grasp “practically” that such an interpretation is valid also for the philosophy of praxis itself, without in so doing shaking the convictions that are necessary for action. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1442

Categorization

• XREF: The self-referential problem of critique — historicism applied to its own claims undermines activism; parallels problem of deconstructing one’s own normative grounding.
• QUESTION: How does any emancipatory critique live with the provisionality of its own foundations without collapsing into scepticism?