"It is the tradition of the oppressed in which the working class enters the stage as the final enslaved, avenging and liberating class... For both are nourished by the true image of enslaved ancestors rather than by the ideal image of liberated descendants. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution this awareness was still alive. The motto “no glory for the victor, no sympathy for the defeated” is so poignant because it expresses solidarity with the dead brothers rather than with future generations" - Walter Benjamin

https://kolektiva.media/w/u8tJSLGeBs9xBYGh7hdZEb

#anarchism #WalterBenjamin #RudolfRocker

Buen día para recoger este párrafo de Walter Benjamin: "La consciencia de estar haciendo saltar el continuum de la historia es peculiar de las clases revolucionarias en el momento de su acción. La gran Revolución introdujo un calendario nuevo. El día con el que comienza un calendario cumple oficio de acelerador histórico del tiempo. Y en el fondo es el mismo día que, en figura de días festivos, días conmemorativos, vuelve siempre. Los calendarios no cuentan, pues, el tiempo como los relojes. Son monumentos de una consciencia de la historia de la que no parece haber en Europa desde hace cien años la más leve huella. Todavía en la Revolución de julio se registró un incidente en el que dicha consciencia consiguió su derecho. Cuando llegó el anochecer del primer día de lucha, ocurrió que en varios sitios de París, independiente y simultáneamente, se disparó sobre los relojes de las torres"

#WalterBenjamin

I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html

#WalterBenjamin

The life and works of #WalterBenjamin can open up new spaces to think through #history and #concepts to inform the contemporary moment.

📷 Walter Benjamin Memorial, #Portbou
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"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/