Immanentism is progressive only when historicised and materialist

Evidence

Marx’s “materialism” adds to this premise at least one other requirement: that the relationship must be thought within determinate historical conditions. It must be made historically specific . It is this second requirement which distinguishes a historical materialist theory of human society and culture from, say, a materialism grounded in the simple fact of man’s physical nature (a “vulgar,” or as Marx calls it, an undialectical materialism) or one which gives the determining instance to technological development alone. What Karl Korsch, among others, has called “the principle of historical specificity” in Marx’s materialism is clearly enunciated in The German Ideology (where Marx’s theory becomes, for the first time, fully “historical”) and afterward in his mature work. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Historicism held that each culture forms a coherent whole penetrable only by sympathy; A rational, historicist will grounded in objective necessity grounds philosophy; Immanence is the unifying concept translating German philosophy into historicist form (+6 more)

Related

• Historical materialism is fundamentally historicist, not metaphysical (similarity 0.93)
• Marx’s concept of historical specificity deepened between German Ideology and Capital (similarity 0.86)
• Historical specificity, not mere materialism, defines Marx’s theory of culture (similarity 0.86)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism (similarity 0.86)
• Historical materialism requires no metaphysical-materialist foundation (similarity 0.84)
• Historical materialism is a break with rather than an inversion of Hegel. (similarity 0.83)
• Marx treats culture as accumulated human mastery over nature, not mere description (similarity 0.83)
• Philosophy of praxis transforms Hegelian immanentism into absolute historicism and humanism (similarity 0.80)
• Mature Marx employed structural rather than sequential causality (similarity 0.80)
• Marx rejected any universal concept of production outside history. (similarity 0.79)
• Material conditions condition but never fully determine historical practice. (similarity 0.79)
• Early Institute authors presented materialism as pioneering rather than established doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• Material conditions are necessary but not sufficient for all historical practice. (similarity 0.79)
• Engels himself admitted that Marxism’s economic reductionism was partly his and Marx’s fault (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism #expands (0.80)
• Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism #corroborates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881