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Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” Is a Revolutionary Call to Arms
German philosopher Walter Benjamin published his famous essay “The Critique of Violence” a hundred years ago. It shows Benjamin’s commitment to a Marxist vision of workers’ revolution against a legal system that protects and mystifies ruling-class power.