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They want to use the Cross but ignore it's tradition and history “ Individuals devoted to the saving of lives and property arose during the Crusades. Bands of knights going to the Holy Land ito search for the Holy Grail were organized into “orders.” One such order was entitled the Order of Saint John of Hospitaliers. This band of knights dedicated themselves to the treatment of serious wounds caused on the battleground. [sic] The symbol for the Order of Saint John was a red Cross” ... to much positive philosophy, the enemies have infiltrated our most important organizations and hope to break religion once and for all before enacting communism. Gramsci would be proud:

Gramsci's intellectual work in prison did not emerge in the light of day until several years after World War II, when the PC began publishing scattered sections of the Notebooks and some of the approximately 500 letters he wrote from prison. By the 1950s, and then with increasing frequency and intensity, his prison writings attracted interest and critical commentary in a host of countries, not only in the West but in the so-called third world as well. Some of his terminology became household words on the left, the most important of which, and the most complex, is the term "hegemony" as he used it in his writings and applied to the twin task of understanding the reasons underlying both the successes and the failures of socialism on a global scale, and of elaborating a feasible program for the realization of a socialist vision within the really existing conditions that prevailed in the world. Among these conditions were the rise and triumph of fascism and the disarray on the left that had ensued as a result of that triumph. Also extremely pertinent, both theoretically and practically, were such terms and phrases as "organic intellectual," "national'popular," and "historical bloc" which, even if not coined by Gramsci, acquired such radically new and original implications in his writing as to constitute effectively new formulations in the realm of political philosophy.

Knights Hospitalers (Hospitaliers) The Hospitaliers, or Knights Hospitaliers, refers to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, and their full title is The Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta. The order was founded in the early 12th century, and their original purpose was to protect a hospital built in Jerusalem by Gerard before the first Crusade. The brothers were sworn to assist the defense of Jerusalem, as well as to poverty, chastity and obedience.

Want More?? The first leader of the order, Gerard, was called rector, and later leaders were called grand masters. Due to the protective duties in an extremely troubled time, the Hospitalers was a military order, and the knights were armed and of noble birth. In the Holy Land, they formed a community under the Rule of St. Augustine that endured until the failure of the Crusades.