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  "tags": [
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    "Books, Poetry & Short Stories",
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  "textContent": "In his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Benjamin argued that many forms of knowledge are created on a bourgeois principle, and new formulations will be required to ensure proletarian, or class, truth. [Alex Gordon]",
  "title": "Jewish biography: Walter Benjamin, Marxist philosopher"
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