The subjectivist conception only gains truth when reinterpreted through the concept of superstructures.

Evidence

It must be demonstrated that while the “subjectivist” conception has had its usefulness as a criticism of the philosophy of transcendence on the one hand and the naive metaphysics of common sense and of philosophical materialism on the other, it can find its truth and its historicist interpretation only in the concept of superstructures. As for its speculative form, it is no more than a mere philosophical romance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1577

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Gramsci’s historicist move: subjective idealism is saved not as metaphysics but as a theory of how ideas (superstructures) are constituted on material bases.
• XREF: Feeds forward into how later Islamophobia theory treats discourse/representation as socially constructed rather than transcendentally idealist.