Revolutionary anti-fascism drew on archaic imagery as deep as fascism’s own

Evidence

The common ground between Bloch and Benjamin was wide: categories such as dream and myth, Early and Late, and archaic and dialectical images were central for both. Benjamin, too, viewed periods of decay positively. In his eyes, too, what was required in the revolutionary struggle against fascism was a form of power which `sprang from the depths of history no less deep than the power of the fascists’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Benjamin’s aura theology and the Klages-derived aura concept noted elsewhere in the Frankfurt School material. — connects to: Self-conscious nostalgia can fuel revolution, not merely fascism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 172
• DEFINE: Nails down the shared Bloch-Benjamin vocabulary: dream, myth, Early/Late, archaic vs dialectical images.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Self-conscious nostalgia can fuel revolution, not merely fascism — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 172