ABSTRACT
History is by definition what is no more; yet it is only through attention to this no longer existing that people can create an impartiality of judgement, which is necessary to create perspective. This chapter focuses on back to Italy in the 1970s, the real clash is a political one, but it also involves two theoretical visions, which are tightly intertwined: the historicists versus the structuralists. The strategy of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) can only be understood through historicism. Because communism is, in part, rooted in Hegelism, all its political philosophy is based on historical consequences of choices. The PCI had realized that there was a very serious threat to its identity, an identity which was still rooted in the process initiated by the Russian revolution and the political events of Eastern Europe. The party equated the American culture to which young Italians were exposed through music, cinema and books with pure anticommunist propaganda.
