Marxism is essentially Hegel’s philosophy combined with Ricardo’s economics.

Evidence

But it seems to me that one of the most interesting and fecund subjects for research yet to be carried out concerns the relationship between German philosophy, French politics and English classical economics. One could say in a sense, I think, that the philosophy of praxis equals Hegel plus David Ricardo. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1418

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: A compact formula that could anchor the historical-materialist toolkit item alongside Said’s account of how European thought shaped its others.

Related

• Attacks on vulgar economism are often mistaken for critiques of Marxism itself (similarity 0.83)
• Marxism historicizes the Hegelian idea across both structure and superstructure. (similarity 0.82)
• Tracing how Marxism got absorbed into other philosophies requires delicate analysis of hidden connections. (similarity 0.81)
• Gramsci distinguishes Marx’s rational dialectic from a merely materialist inversion of Hegel (similarity 0.80)
• Marx distinguished scientific determination of material production from ideological forms of consciousness (similarity 0.79)
• Marx’s inversion of Hegel is oppositional, not a simple turn from idealism to materialism (similarity 0.79)
• Marx reduced global capitalism to a knowable geometric system. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx broke with political economy by abstracting structures apart from individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci adds concepts classical Marxism lacked for explaining modern society. (similarity 0.79)
• Marx read Hegel’s Philosophy of Right as both critical analysis and negation. (similarity 0.78)
• Historical materialism requires no metaphysical-materialist foundation (similarity 0.78)
• Austrian Marxism uniquely fused Machian positivism with socialist economics (similarity 0.78)