- Antonio Gramsci

" I've never been a professional journalist selling his pen to the one who pays him better, and he has to lie constantly because he becomes a lie his professional code. I was to the end of a free newspaperman, always a single opinion, and I never had to hide my deepest beliefs to treat the masters or their confederates."

Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891. - April 27, 1937.) was an Italian Marxist journalist, philosopher and politician. Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class (the bourgeoisie) use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. He was founded the Communist Party of Italy (Partito Comunista d'Italia-PCd'I) on January 21, 1921. in the town Livorno. Later on the November 9, 1926. the fascist regime arrested Gramsci, despite his parliamentary immunity and brought him to prison. Gramsci was one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the 20th century and a particularly key thinker in the development of Western Marxism.