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Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Approximate author period: c. 1916 AD · modern

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Walter Benjamin
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Approximate author period: c. 1916 AD · modern
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