 Specht modules as minimal left ideals

In the complex symmetric-group algebra, normalize a Young symmetrizer by $e_t=h_t/H_{\lambda }$. The row-column collision lemma proves $e_{t}A{e}_t=\mathbb{C}{e}_t$, so $e_t$ is a primitive idempotent and $A{e}_t$ is an irreducible left module. Different shapes are separated by the vanishing corner $h_{\lambda }A{h}_{\mu }=0$ for $\lambda >\mu$. Counting conjugacy classes then proves that these modules exhaust the simple modules.