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[Communism]’ and reveals this utopia as fantasy. 137 In a sense, while Anderson
shares less outward affinity with the “pessimistic” Benjamin, his starting point is
the same. Benjamin offered redemptive criticism as a way out of the idea of
progress. Anderson, while certainly eliciting a preference for the Angel of History
over Messianism, does not ignore this option of redemptive criticism as much as
some critics would have it.
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