True that Benjamin used a communist language in the last years of his life, so he looks different to us now. But that's because he died in 1940. Thos… - Susan Sontag

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True that Benjamin used a communist language in the last years of his life, so he looks different to us now. But that's because he died in 1940. Those last years were the ones in which communist language regained authority — seen as necessary to fight fascism (identified as The Enemy). Had Benjamin lived as long as Adorno he would have become as a-social, as disillusioned with left as Adorno did.