"The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject"

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A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

— Antonio Gramsci