Abstract
We saw earlier in this study that the ‘construction yards’ of Italian ‘historical materialism’ made use of materials which derived from a long series of reflections on historical knowledge—ones distinctive of Italian national culture. When it came to ‘economic history’, the lesson passed down by one of the founders of this discipline in Italy, Gino Luzzatto, had never been forgotten. Luzzatto was a scholar convinced of the need to use the tools of theory for the study of this discipline, but who also considered such tools inextricably conjugated with the problems and demands posed by history. The centrality of the category 'social and economic formation' in Marxists' theory and historiographical practice was not limited to analysis of the economic base. In the totality of the social relations (economic and otherwise) indicated by the category 'social and economic formation', both thought and language were active elements of the production process and the whole system of relations correlated to it.
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