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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.

— Antonio Gramsci

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Communication

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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.

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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.

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