ANTONIO
On November 8, 1926 the fascist regime arrested Antonio Gramsci.
Founder in 1921 of the communist party, politician, journalist and writer, Gramsci is considered one of the greatest Italian thinkers of the twentieth century.
He is freed from the regime only in 1935 because his health conditions worsened, which led to his death shortly after.
"I hate indifferent people. I guess that living means being partisan. Those who really live cannot not be citizens and partisan. Indifference is abulia, it is parasitism, it is cowardice, it is not life. That's why i hate indifferent people. Indifference is the dead weight of history. Indifference works powerfully in history. Work passively, but it works. It is fatality; it is what you cannot count on; it is what upsets the programs, that overturns the best-built plans; it is the raw matter that strangles the intelligence. What happens, the evil that falls upon everyone, happens because the mass of men abdicate to their will, let them enact laws that only the revolt can repeal, let men rise to power and then only an amutinment can overturn re. Between absenteeism and indifference a few hands, unsupervised by any control, weave the web of collective life, and the mass ignores it, because it does not care; and then it seems that fatality is overwhelming everything and everyone, it seems that history It’s nothing but a huge natural phenomenon, an eruption. an earthquake of which everyone remains victims, who wanted and who didn’t want, who knew and who didn’T know, who was active and who didn’@TAG Some wail mercifully, others swear obscenely, but no one or few ask themselves: if I had done my duty, if I had tried to enforce my will, would what had happened?
I hate indifferent people for this too: because their eternal innocent whining bothers me. I hold each of them accountable for how they performed the task life has placed and placed them on a daily basis, for what they did and especially for what they didn't do. And I feel that I can be inexorable, that I shouldn't waste my pity, that I don't have to share my tears with them.
I am a partisan, I live, I feel in the consciences of my part already pulsating the activity of the future city that my part is building. And in it the social chain does not weigh on the few, in it everything that happens is not due to chance, to fatality, but it is the clever work of citizens. There is no one in it who stands at the window and watches while the few sacrifice themselves, fade away. I'm alive i am partisan. Therefore I hate non-partisan people, I hate indifferent people".
His words should really be reflected; from his powerful reflection one could, perhaps, try to start again to build a better future.
Do not remain indifferent, deploy; personally risk fighting for what you consider worthy.
It’s what they did, in their lives, all the protagonists of our stories, each in their own way.
Bruno Neri for example.
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