How come this guy is never blamed for "cultural Marxism"

>>9938547
Only Marcuse was an identity politics cunt that the /pol/ retards call 'cultural marxism'.

Benjamin was an unbelievably gifted writer, and his death was a big loss. Benjamin was a mysticist, not a fucking liberal idpol obsessed retard

/pol/ doesn't know/care about Benjamin because

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>>9938547
Where to start with Benji? My favorite blogger keeps making oblique references to him and I have no idea what he's on about.

Benjamin wasn't PC. He used some pretty misogynistic language, which isn't much of a stretch when you consider how the Jewish god values men far higher than women.

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>>9938639
Watch this lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQpyUjJAo-s

>>9938568
And they don't even read good Marcuse either.

>>9938568
Agreed. Of far more value to literature in general, both his true calling and love.

>>9938547
benjamin for example never really read "The Capital Vol.1" by Marx, he all got it second-hand from Lukacs´ 'History and Class Consciousness, just think of the whole alienation and objectivation critique, also he mainly wrote about bourgeois and aesthetic stuff, not quite related to the main concepts of marx, excpt for the analysis of the form of the commodity

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>>9938547
How long have you been on the board? I can think of 5-6 Benjamin cultural marxist hate threads since May/June.

Also, calling Benjamin a 'major member of the Frankfurt School' is simply incorrect - he was never a part of the institute. He was rather loosely associated with the school by his friendship with Adorno, who also gave him a bought of cash when he was on the brink of starvation.

His ideas were never fully compatible with the guys at Frankfurt because of their ambiguity and undertones of mysticism. E.g. take the whole battle over his legacy between Adorno and Scholem - if it wasn't for Scholem, we would never have seen the full edition of the gesammelte schriften, only a carefully curated selection by Adorno and his wife.

As for Benjamin's marxism, it really is the most peculiar and unorthodox version of Marxism you will find. He basically called out the entirety of the marxist intelligentsia and attacked standard marxist theory for being incapable of actually working on behalf of the downtrodden and silenced voices of history with his critique of the notion of progress.

If you want to continue a project of emancipatory nature after Benjamin (assuming that you've taken in the insights of his thought), it will not be of a progressive nature.

>>9938547
I think there's also the sense that he was a nice guy, instead of the asshole Adorno was.