Aspetti dello storicismo di Togliatti

Togliatti always offered of himself the image of a “pupil” of Antonio Gramsci. Indeed, he was the editor and continuer of his thought. Starting from Gramsci’s work, he built a cultural policy and, in general, the new policy of Italian Communists. But his writings also show the profile of an original philosophy and the search for a historicism largely centered on the relationship with the modern Enlightenment and on the main problems of dialectics. Between the unfi- nished essay on Antonio Labriola and the lecture on The popular classes in the Risorgimento (1962),Togliatti elaborated a vision of Italian intellectual history and considered the most important questions of theoretical Marxism.