Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode we have back on the

show Longtime, Friend of the Show, Friend of Mine, John Greenway aka the Lit Crit guy

to talk about the life and work of Walter Benthamming, the best German accent or in my

worst American accent, Walter Benjamin, fascinating Marxist Jewish intellectual who

combine German idealism and romanticism with Western Marxism, with Jewish mysticism

and many other things and just a really fascinating thinker that I think perhaps a lot of people

on the left might have heard of but don't really fully understand or know quite where

to place him in the in the tradition of Marxist intellectuals and hopefully this episode

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