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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which co...more

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What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are s...more

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History is written by the victors.

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To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...more

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The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the en...more

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That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.