Marxism’s core innovation is rejecting transcendence, not asserting materialism

Evidence

The originality of Marxism, in this perspective, lies in its definitive rejection of any form of transcendentalism, rather than in its materialism. … Although he argues the need to combat directly the theories of Croce and devotes large sections of his Notebooks (MS. pp. 171 254, not reproduced in this volume) to precisely this task, he locates the main enemy of the philosophy of praxis not in idealism as such but in transcendence and metaphysics, focusing his attention on the neo-Kantian deviations of the Austro-Marxism of Adler and Hilferding and on the “materialist” orthodoxy of Plekhanov and Bukharin. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1345

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: Supplies the rejection-of-transcendence criterion that distinguishes Gramscian ‘philosophy of praxis’ from both idealism and vulgar materialism — a tool for reading subsequent Islamophobia-theory claims about secular/materialist critique.
• DEFINE: Defines what Gramsci takes as the defining originality of the philosophy of praxis: anti-transcendentalism over materialism.

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