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

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

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

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

an extremely complex and variegated set of dialectical relationships between 'high' and 'low' and 'avant-garde' and 'popular'strands

Both bear the stigmata of capitalism

I wonder whether such ideas need to be as immured behind impenetrable layers of material as your ascetic discipline demands

Let me express myself in as simple and Hegelian a manner as possible.

Let me close with some epilegomena to the Baudelaire.