History Teaches

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History teaches, but has no pupils.

| Antonio Gramsci

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Gramsci offers something that slightly clashes with George Santayana's more well-known observation, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ (or its many paraphrases). Santayana is quite specific about what will happen to those who forget the past. At the same time, Gramsci bro…