Bless You,

I don't look liek either of those things but we take what we can get I suppose

wait, apparently he's her bf... or was? interesting...

wait he still does

"'...But let it be clear that such a thing has never existed in the past, and if it has been invoked in recent times, it has never been invoked with sound historical reasons.'"

"He writes, not by chance, in some passages of his spiritual testament: 'I understand well that young people accustomed to these years of Christian Democratic regime may be falsely informed about the problem of a "unity of Catholics".'"

"...that, in the famous phrase of Ferdinando Martini taken up by Tommaso Gallarati Scotti, opposed 'a class religion to a class struggle'; a Catholicism that did not mean 'political unity of Catholics.'"

"... From the contrast between the universal, international, spiritual demands of the Church and the pretensions of the national and bourgeois State (pretensions that are ideally, ethically and aesthetically inferior) arises the Roman Question."

"Communism will restore the universal greatness of Rome, Rome as metropolis, Rome caput mundi, Rome capital of the kingdom of the spirit, Rome humanistic, which in its bosom rests (ROMA - AMOR) symbolizing the triumph of love over force."

"There is a piece of the tunic of Christ in the countless red flags of communists who throughout the world are raising [them] to assault the bourgeois fortress, in order to secure peace on earth for all men of good will."

"This was the 'last glimmer of Bordighian Gramsci' before the long reflection that led him to radically change his convictions on the matter."

"[The Catholics] are making a disgusting mess by plundering the proletarian united front because it 'essentially relies on the peasant class.'"

"And it will be the Catholics on the far left, fortunately, who will push 'the socialist government of tomorrow to implement social and moral reforms.'"

"The Bolshevik socialists are destined to make a very bad impression and to become, as the Hon. Miglioli stated with the cheek that everyone recognizes, a conservative 'centrist party'." [cont]

"If we didn't know our Catholic chickens too well, we might be surprised by the red feathers with which they are showing off at the Bologna Congress." Gramsci on Miglioli lmfao

"It was the very extreme operational simplicity of the Bordighian project (communists on one side, bourgeois forces on the other: between the two sides only a frontal clash) that did not allow it"