Benjamin was a German Marxist who wished to follow in the footsteps of other agitprop cultural warriors like Gramsci and the communist playwright and theater heartthrob Bertolt Brecht.
He published "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" for his small circle of academic comrades. They quickly went to work spreading it far and wide.
It was quickly translated into multiple languages and made required reading in courses of countless majors across the leftist-dominated universities of the world.
It played a major rule in influencing the pinkos who formed the Frankfurt School, poisoning a whole generation of university graduates in the West.
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