Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
