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But born into a backward peasant environment and deprived of either an adequate or a continuous education, Gramsci's success in school and university despite constant ill-health, under-nourishment and over-work was a triumph of intellectual purpose. Something of his individual experience is thus carried over into his repeated emphasis on learning as work.

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison notebooks - Gramsci (p. 35).
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"He did not hesitate to plunge the South and the Islands into a terrifying commercial crisis, so long as he was able to reinforce the industry which could give the country a real independence, and which would expand the cadres of the dominant social group: this is the policy of manufacturing the manufacturer."

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison notebooks - Gramsci (p. 80). Lebooks Editora. Kindle Edition.
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"All men are intellectuals, one could therefore say: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

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