It is said that the dialectical method consists in doing justice each time to the historical situation of its object. But that is not enough. For it is just as much a matter of doing justice to the concrete historical situation of the interest taken in the object. . . . To approach, in this way, “what has been” means to treat it not historiographically, as heretofore, but politically, in political categories. —Walter Benjamin

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传播主义：冷战人文主义

据说辩证法就是每次都对对象的历史情况进行公正处理。但这还不够。因为这同样是对对象所感兴趣的具体历史情况进行公正处理的问题。. . . 以这种方式接近“曾经的事物”意味着不是像以往那样在历史上对待它，而是在政治上以政治类别来对待它。——沃尔特·本杰明