The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.
History is at once freedom and necessity. - Antonio Gramsci
History is at once freedom and necessity.
- Antonio Gramsci
To tell the truth is revolutionary. - Antonio Gramsci
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. - Antonio Gramsci
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via i… - Antonio Gramsci
Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via i…
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, un… - Antonio Gramsci
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, un…
Every State is a dictatorship. - Antonio Gramsci
Every State is a dictatorship.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. - Antonio Gramsci
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Indifference is the dead weight of history. - Antonio Gramsci
Indifference is the dead weight of history.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall. - Antonio Gramsci
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
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