Adrian Wilding’s essay ‘The Complicity of Posthistory’ (to be found in W. Bonefeld et al (1995) Emancipating Marx. Open Marxism Volume 3. London: Pluto Press) offers the following quote from Benjamin:
‘Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world-history. But perhaps it is completely different. Perhaps revolutions are the people on these trains reaching for the emergency brake.’
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