Thursday, June 07, 2007
He Was Quite Sensible You Know
"What is needed for the revolution are men* of sober mind, men who don't cause an absence of bread in the bakeries, who make trains run, who provide the factories with raw materials and know how to turn the produce of the country into industrial produce, who ensure the safety and freedom of the people against attacks of criminals, who enable the network of collective services to function and who do not reduce the people to despair and to a horrible carnage. Verbal enthusiasm and reckless phraseology make one laugh (or cry) when a single one of these problems has to be resolved even in a village of a hundred inhabitants"
Gramsci
* And women too, of course, as I'm sure old Antonio meant to say.
Gramsci
* And women too, of course, as I'm sure old Antonio meant to say.
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