The class struggle, which is always present to a historian influenced by Marx, is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined and spiritual things could exist.... They have retroactive force and will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the rulers. (Walter Benjamin, Theses of the Philosophy of History, IV.)
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