From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely, of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons.
Antonio GramsciSocialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. โฆ In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.
Antonio GramsciMan is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Antonio Gramsci