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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.

— 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)

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.

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.

Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

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