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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).

— Antonio Gramsci Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)

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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.

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