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1891–1937 Italy
Antonio Gramsci (23 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Mussolini's Fascist regime.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
History is at once freedom and necessity.
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
History teaches, but it has no pupils.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.
Every time that the language question appears, in one mode or another, it signifies that a series of other problems are beginning to impose themselves: the formation and growth of the ruling class, the need to stabilize the most intimate and secure links between that ruling group and the popular national masses, that is, to reorganize cultural hegemony.
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers’ unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem.
Davidson's (1977)
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
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The long march through the institutions.
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To tell the truth is revolutionary.
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