A review by isabelhalina
The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino

3.0

"That is the real meaning of the struggle now, the real, absolute meaning, beyond the various official meanings. An elementary, anonyous urge to free us from all our humiliations; the worker from his exploitation, the peasant from his ignorance, the petty bourgeois from his inhibitions, the outcast from his curruption. This is what I believe our political work is, to use human misery against itself, for our own redemption, as the Fascists use misery to perpetuate misery and man fighting man"