I am Christian, therefore I am communist. The first Christian communities were very communist... except that they were expecting the immediate end of… - Gianni Vattimo

I grew up as a Catholic militant; when I was a boy I used to read authors like Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier and novelists like Bernanos. But Catholic inspiration led me also to read authors that were heretical to the modern tradition. I didn’t like rationalistic historicism that came from Enlightenment, peaking in Hegel and Marx.

I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.

I propose hermeneutic communism: non-dogmatic communism, weak communism. Only this can save us. [Is is] without essences, without absolutes to be realized at all costs. It is only an ideal of equitable society, a society that progressively weakens violence like dialectics.