the tradition handed down to the present by the 'progressive' epochs of the past was a set of compelling norms, a mortmain that literary legatees must honour on pain of disinheritance

it was Bloch in Czechoslovakia who volunteered fulsome affadavits for the Moscow trials

a growing paucity of content

There can be no doubt that primitive accumulation, the separation of the small producers from their means of production, the creation of the proletariat, was--with all its inhumanities--a historical necessity.

in accordance with the exigencies of the moment

When I read that the autarky of the Third Reich is perfect on paper, then I know that this is a case of political formalism

So-called agitprop art, at which people, not always the best people, turned up their noses, was a mine of new artistic methods and modes of expression.

those who have appropriate the theoretical doctrines of Marx and taken over their management will always form a clerical camarilla

the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

oneiric version of commodity fetishism