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A History of Revolution

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Against Institutional Religion

The 20th century is also an age of strange hybrid forms between secularism and religion. There are some erotical thinkers, revolutionary thinkers like Benjamin who tried to find a kind of synthesis between secular Marxism and Jewish Messianism. Think of these categories, these forged by Isaac Deutscher of the non-Jewish Jews. They rejected Judaism as a form of obscurantism, as vestige of the past.

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