Once you have exhausted the improbable, whatever is left, however intolerable, thrusts in as the truth.

“ambiguity, self-doubt, andestrangementasfundamental
psychologicalcircumstancesorabidingsocialorpoliticalvalues”

Nice little line from Gramsci on the need for a self-reflexive criticism, aware of its own contingency: any valid social criticism must have as its "starting point" an attempt at "'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical process to date which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory."

Flawed, but neat.