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History Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

7 History quotes by Antonio Gramsci

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Antonio Gramsci treated history not as a static record but as a battlefield of ideas, where class and culture clash. His aphorisms reveal how power is built, contested, and reshaped over time. The excerpts presented here expose the strategic lens he applied to every epoch.

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Indifference is the dead weight of history.

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“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a…

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Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be…

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Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

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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…

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The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very…

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History is at once freedom and necessity.

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A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning…

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

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How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had…

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“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…

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The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always…

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Indifference is the dead weight of history.

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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and…

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“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

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The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

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From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely,…

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“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

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What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

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This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for…

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Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of…

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