Gramsci casually quoting something Romain Rolland wrote eight years prior, in a book review no less gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
@kerim.oneI see Bluesky is debating optimism vs. pessimism. I always liked what Gramsci had to say about this: “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
