Notes for a history of the Left

With the aim of thinking about the history of the left, this article proposes an approach to some aspects of the term left as a political concept. The author highlights that such experiences, always plural, articulate a relational component (linked to the representative scene but also to the democratic one), a positional one (as an expression of emancipations) and, generally, an identity component (crystallizations in times of depoliticization). In turn, a history of the left implies a reflection on the historiographical task itself, insofar as it cannot be excluded from the historical conflicts that this concept names.