Gramsci disguised ideal future systems as the past to evade censors.
Evidence
The apparently āconservativeā eulogy of the old curriculum in fact often represents a device which allowed Gramsci to circumvent the prison censor, by disguising the future (ideal system) as the past in order to criticise the present. ā Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 322
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