In discussing the problem of the crisis of philosophical historiography, the paper brings the current prevalence of the “presentist” attitude back to the oblivion of labour process that Marx considers to be the origin of the commodity fetishism. As regards the so-called “Italian theoretical Marxism”, the paper shows how one outcome of “presentism” is the revisionist exegesis which, on questionable textual grounds, calls the Marxism of Gramsci (and of Antonio Labriola himself) into question in order to separate him from the experience of the Bolshevik revolution.
Keywords: Presentism, Post-modernism, Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Labriola, Commodity Fetishism.