Tracing how Marxism got absorbed into other philosophies requires delicate analysis of hidden connections.

Evidence

Why has the philosophy of praxis had this fate of having served to form combinations between its principal elements and either idealism or philosophical materialism? Research into this cannot but be complex and delicate; it requires a lot of finesse in analysis and intellectual sobriety. For it is very easy to be deceived by external similarities and not to see hidden similarities and necessary but camouflaged connections. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1390

Categorization

• QUESTION: The question Gramsci poses here — why did Marxism get absorbed into idealism and materialism? — is worth chasing in later chapters where he develops his own synthesis.
• XREF: connects to: Right-wing literature secretly carries energies Marxism can reclaim — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 237; Personal networks placed psychoanalysis inside the Institute of Social Research, linking it with Marxism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 214

Related

• Marxist orthodoxy allied chiefly with traditional materialism over Kantianism (similarity 0.83)
• Right-wing literature secretly carries energies Marxism can reclaim (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci rejected any Marxism that separated knowledge from how it is acquired (similarity 0.81)
• Marxism’s educational mission to the masses absorbed its intellectual strength (similarity 0.81)
• Idealist revisions of Marxism came from pure intellectuals while orthodoxy came from activists. (similarity 0.81)
• Marxist intellectuals historically emerged from intermediary classes rather than the people. (similarity 0.80)
• Marxism is essentially Hegel’s philosophy combined with Ricardo’s economics. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci borrowed non-Marxist concepts while redefining them within Marxist discourse (similarity 0.79)
• Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis links theory inseparably to practice and action (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism historicizes the Hegelian idea across both structure and superstructure. (similarity 0.79)
• Every prior philosophy expressed social contradictions without consciously knowing them (similarity 0.79)
• A philosophy’s intellectual sources do not constitute its essential content (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism allied with foreign doctrines to fight religious residue among the masses (similarity 0.79)
• Marxist theory itself is a product of historical contradictions and will disappear with them (similarity 0.78)
• Marxist theories of false consciousness merged with Freudian psychoanalysis in the Frankfurt School. (similarity 0.78)