A Left-Wing Historical Revisionism: Studying the Conflicts of the Twentieth Century After the Crisis of Anti-Fascist Paradigm

The great political and social changes that have paved the neoliberal turn were accompanied also by cultural transformations of not lesser xtent. Historical revisionism plays in historiographical science the same role that postmodernism plays in philosophy and in the humanities: a deligitimation of the revolutionary tradition in order to reiterate the argument that the history of modern democracy have exclusively to be identified with the history of liberalism, the history that ideological position that triumphed at the end of the Cold War. Historical revisionism puts in question the revolutionary cycle that begins with the French Revolution and reaches up to the decolonization. It focuses, however, in a particular way on the “Second Thirty Years' War” (1914-1945), in whose interpretation it replaces the category of "international democratic revolution" with the idea of a perpetual conflict between liberal democracy and right- and lef t - wing“ totalitarianism” (Nazism and communism are the same in this perspective). The revisionist cultural hegemony has almost since many years erased, therefore, the historiographical anti-fascist paradigm born during the Seond World War from the alliance between the liberal democracies and the Soviet Union. To this offensive we have not to answer, however, with the nostalgic defence of the past, but by fighting back: new discoveries and researches have, instead, to stimulate the construction of an autonomous "historical revisionism from the left.” A revisionism which is able, for instance, to question the deep link between the neoliberal world of today and the Western colonial tradition.