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Italy was a poor country, which transformed from fascism into an industrialized nation. Pasolini lived his whole life outside of this culture and he was never part of it, but attached himself to the subproletarian culture. In fact, throughout his work, he seeks to reestablish this lost culture. In Genariello, he writes:
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Notes
- 1.
Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Geniriello,” in The Lutheran Letters, p. 20.
- 2.
Pasolini writes: “In other words, our guilt as fathers could be said to consist in this: that we believe that history is not and cannot be other than bourgeois history,” Ibid, p. 16.
- 3.
Ibid.
- 4.
Kriss Ravetto, The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), p. 15.
- 5.
“Pasolini on Consumeristic Civilization,” available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bipWHxTi-3c
- 6.
Kriss Ravetto, The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics, p. 16.
- 7.
Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel, p. 3.
- 8.
Ibid., p. 4.
- 9.
Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries, p. 195.
- 10.
Althusser, The Spectre of Hegel, p. 8.
- 11.
Ibid., p. 9.
- 12.
Ibid., p. 6.
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Hamza, A. (2016). Class Struggle Versus Humanity. In: Althusser and Pasolini. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56652-2_25
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