Antonio Gramsci Quotes
Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.
Gramsci, Antonio. "The Russian Utopia." Selections from Political Writings 1910-1920, edited by Quintin Hoare, translated by John Mathews, International Publishers, 1977, p. 50.
Kissinger and Nixon were talking about the Russian discrimination and persecution of Jews throughout the Soviet Union. Kissinger had drawn an extreme hypothetical analogy of Russians sending Jews to gas chambers. See related quote. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.
During the American Revolution, the Iroquois sided with the British, aiding them militarily and other ways. The revolutionaries responded by attacking and destroying most of the Iroquois who retreated to British Canada.
Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
