Trotsky’s dismissal of Labriola reflected German intellectual influence

Evidence

This judgment is incomprehensible (unless it is a reference to the gap between theory and practice in Labriola as a person, which would not appear to be the case) except as an unconscious reflection of the pseudo-scientific pedantry of the German intellectual group that was so influential in Russia. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1375

Categorization

• XREF: This foreshadows the later Islamophobia-field critique of how ‘scientific’ pretensions of metropolitan intellectual schools distort judgment of colonized/peripheral thinkers.

Related

• Labriola’s Marxism was widely misread in an idealist direction. (similarity 0.84)