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a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time