Well Benjamins unorthodox Marxism has earned him a few Marxist critics but a fraud a crank Benjamin is by all accounts considered one of the more original writers weve had I suppose youd think Sontag also gave her best New York Intellectual effort when praising Adornos writing Such calumny is heresy as you well know But Im sure you base your accusations of obscurantism on your reading of Benjamin in the original       FM