Sartre’s Critique reworked Marxist economism into praxis-language for a new era of revolutionary ferment

Evidence

One might say, in Crocean terminology, that the greatest heresy which has grown in the womb of the “religion of freedom” has itself too like orthodox religion degenerated, and has become disseminated as “superstition”—in other words, has combined with laissez-faire liberalism and produced economism. However, it remains to be seen whether—in contrast to orthodox religion, which has by now quite shrivelled up—this heretical superstition has not in fact always maintained a ferment which will cause it to be reborn as a higher form of religion; in other words, if the dross of superstition is not in fact easily got rid of. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 709 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s Critique philosophically grounds already-accepted Marxist history; Sartre translated Hegelian and ontological lack into socio-economic need — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 469; The May Events of 1968 vindicated Sartre’s Critique de la raison dialectique (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• A new Marxist paradigm seeks to overcome economism and reductionism #corroborates (0.85)
• Marxism degenerated into economism by fusing with laissez-faire liberalism #qualifies (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 709
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism #qualifies (0.72)