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The paradoxical fact is that it is precisely the passion for truth, conscience, in its search for the truth, that has come to undermine itself: it has discovered, in fact, that it is just a passion like any other.

— Gianni Vattimo

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I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.

Opposing homosexual families is only possible in the name of a philosophical belief about the natural essence of the family itself. This cannot be professed by a lay state.

Soviet communism and Western capitalism share the same crazy ideology: forced industrialization of society.

Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

Just as Western literature would be unthinkable without the Homeric poems, without Shakespeare, without Dante, so our culture as a whole would be meaningless if we were to cut Christianity out of it.

I am Christian, therefore I am communist. The first Christian communities were very communist... except that they were expecting the immediate end of the world.

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