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The late transitioner boymoder
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The late transitioner boymoder
"Miglioli, in fact, chose to live his Catholicism by fighting alongside and with the working masses: a Catholicism that was not compatible with the clerical and reactionary forms..."
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"Miglioli, in fact, chose to live his Catholicism by fighting alongside and with the working masses: a Catholicism that was not compatible with the clerical and reactionary forms..."
"The red tunic of Christ flames today more resplendent, redder, more Bolshevik. As it was a miracle of love, it has multiplied infinitely." Cesare Seassaro, The Roman Question (October 2, 1920) (Catholic socialist and contributor to Gramsci's L'Ordine Nuovo)
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
"The red tunic of Christ flames today more resplendent, redder, more Bolshevik. As it was a miracle of love, it has multiplied infinitely." Cesare Seassaro, The Roman Question (October 2, 1920) (Catholic socialist and contributor to Gramsci's L'Ordine Nuovo)
All the quotes are from this book, btw:
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
All the quotes are from this book, btw:
Contrast with Bordiga obvs:
"In Bordiga in essence ... [there] was no historical and political problem of Catholicism." Pier Giorgio Zunino
"In Bordiga in essence ... [there] was no historical and political problem of Catholicism." Pier Giorgio Zunino
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Contrast with Bordiga obvs:
"In Bordiga in essence ... [there] was no historical and political problem of Catholicism." Pier Giorgio Zunino
"In Bordiga in essence ... [there] was no historical and political problem of Catholicism." Pier Giorgio Zunino
"Although not religious, Marxist socialists are not anti-religious either; the workers' state will not persecute religion; the workers' state will demand from Christian proletarians the loyalty that every state demands from its citizens..." Gramsci
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"Although not religious, Marxist socialists are not anti-religious either; the workers' state will not persecute religion; the workers' state will demand from Christian proletarians the loyalty that every state demands from its citizens..." Gramsci
"'The constitution of the Popular Party,' Gramsci wrote in a now famous note from November 1919, 'is equivalent in importance to the German Reformation, it is the irresistible unconscious explosion of the Italian Reformation.'"
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"'The constitution of the Popular Party,' Gramsci wrote in a now famous note from November 1919, 'is equivalent in importance to the German Reformation, it is the irresistible unconscious explosion of the Italian Reformation.'"
"The only guarantee against the ever-possible return of fascism, understood as the restoration of bourgeois power, appeared to [guido miglioli] to be 'the advent of all workers to compose the ruling class of the state.'"
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"The only guarantee against the ever-possible return of fascism, understood as the restoration of bourgeois power, appeared to [guido miglioli] to be 'the advent of all workers to compose the ruling class of the state.'"
"Does not the very idea of Society show us the natural tendency of smaller associations to expand, to mingle, to unify, or, as some say, to amalgamate?" Luigi Taparelli (Della nazionalità)
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"Does not the very idea of Society show us the natural tendency of smaller associations to expand, to mingle, to unify, or, as some say, to amalgamate?" Luigi Taparelli (Della nazionalità)
Trads love to cite Luigi Taparelli but do they realize a) he influenced Luigi Sturzo b) believed that there ought to be an international authority that would render war impossible
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Trads love to cite Luigi Taparelli but do they realize a) he influenced Luigi Sturzo b) believed that there ought to be an international authority that would render war impossible
"Karl Marx and his successors thought they could make no worse accusation against the greatest of all socialists, Proudhon, than to call him a petit-bourgeois and petit-peasant socialist, which was neither incorrect nor insulting[.]" Gustav Landauer (For Socialism)
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"Karl Marx and his successors thought they could make no worse accusation against the greatest of all socialists, Proudhon, than to call him a petit-bourgeois and petit-peasant socialist, which was neither incorrect nor insulting[.]" Gustav Landauer (For Socialism)
"In a meeting with ... Laurent Remillieux, Stratmann had asked 'to what point am I, a Catholic, entitled to be a pacifist?' This in turn led Remillieux to seek out an answer from the nuncio in Berlin, Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII)."
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"In a meeting with ... Laurent Remillieux, Stratmann had asked 'to what point am I, a Catholic, entitled to be a pacifist?' This in turn led Remillieux to seek out an answer from the nuncio in Berlin, Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII)."
"This word [resistance] which resonated in my desire and my imagination as the most beautiful word in the politics and history of this country, this word loaded with all the pathos of my nostalgia..." Derrida
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"This word [resistance] which resonated in my desire and my imagination as the most beautiful word in the politics and history of this country, this word loaded with all the pathos of my nostalgia..." Derrida
Why does everyone on Letterboxd write like this. This is a review for Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937).
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Why does everyone on Letterboxd write like this. This is a review for Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937).
"Working to meet the working-class world with Christ through actions and awareness."
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"Working to meet the working-class world with Christ through actions and awareness."
its coming close to that time of the year again
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
its coming close to that time of the year again
