The concept of praxis travelled into a protofascist philosophy of the pure act

Evidence

Gentile’s role in the development of Italian Marxism was limited to one thing: his translation, the first into Italian, of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach , which he interpreted idealistically as referring to the process of cognition rather than to the real world and man’s relation to it. Gentile’s flirtation with Marxism was brief and superficial. His theory of praxis soon degenerated into a philosophy of the “pure act”, of voluntarist and protofascist inspiration. He later became a major ideologue of fascism and was executed by the partisans during the resistance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 47

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to how Gramsci’s own concepts (hegemony, organic intellectual) would later be selectively ‘read’ and distorted by appropriating movements — a caution relevant to how Islamophobia scholars track concept uptake.
• CANDY: A fascist ideologue who once translated Marx died at partisans’ hands — compact biographical irony.