Antonio Gramsci
The Fiat workers have returned to work. Treason? Denial of the revolutionary ideals? The workers at Fiat men of flesh and bone. They resisted for a month. They knew they had to struggle and resist, not only for themselves, not only for the remainder of the working masses in Turin, but for the entire Italian working class. They resisted for a month. They were physically exhausted so many weeks and many months, their salaries were reduced and were no longer sufficient to maintain the family, yet they have resisted for a month. They were completely isolated from the nation plunged into a general fatigue, indifference, hostility, and yet they resisted for a month. [...] Knew they could not expect any help from outside: they knew that now the Italian working class had been severed tendons, they knew they were doomed to defeat, but have resisted for a month. [...]
They have done what is given to men of flesh and blood, let us take off his hat before their humiliation, because in it is something big that it requires sincere and honest.
"men of flesh and bones", 1921
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