Antonio Gramsci
An Italian Marxist philosopher and politician who developed the concept of cultural hegemony, explaining how dominant ideologies maintain power in society.
Quotes by Antonio Gramsci
The intellectual must be a 'specialist plus politician'.
The philosophy of praxis is the philosophy of the dialectic, of contradiction and resolution.
The 'national-popular' is the unity of the nation and the people, led by the working class.
The intellectual must be a 'democratic philosopher', not an elitist one.
The philosophy of praxis is the philosophy of the 'superstructure' as well as the 'base'.
The 'civil society' is the realm of hegemony, where consent is manufactured.
The intellectual must be a 'moral and intellectual leader'.
The philosophy of praxis is the philosophy of the 'collective intellectual'.
The 'integral State' includes both political society (coercion) and civil society (hegemony).
The intellectual must be a 'permanent educator'.
The philosophy of praxis is the philosophy of the 'historical subject'.
I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one's own personality?
The philosophy of praxis is consciousness full of contradictions in which the philosopher-critic, himself a 'practical man', criticises himself in order to develop.
To tell the truth is a communist and revolutionary act.
Education is the weapon with which the ruling class maintains its power.
In the political field, the struggle assumes the form: either the other classes win and the worker loses, or the worker wins and the other classes lose.
Every relationship of 'hegemony' is necessarily an educational relationship.