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"No, communism will not obscure beauty and grace: one must understand the impetus by which workers feel drawn to the contemplation of art, to the creation of art, how deeply they feel offended in their humanity because the slavery of wages and work cuts them off from a world that integrates man's life, that makes it worth living. The struggle of the Russian communists to multiply schools, theaters and opera houses, to make galleries accessible to crowds, the fact that villages and factories which distinguish themselves in the sector of production are awarded with aesthetic and cultural entertainments, show that, once in power, the proletariat tends to establish the reign of beauty and grace, to elevate the night and freedom of those who create beauty." Antonio Gramsci, 14 June 1919