Jeffries‘s writing soars when he‘s digging into lesser-known materials (Adorno‘s adorbs letters to his mom) or narrating the lives of these monumental figures (the Benjamin stuff is especially moving). But the author‘s grasp of Marxism itself is...not great. Good for an overview of the FS/its thinkers, but without prior knowledge of Marx much of Jeffries‘s analysis would be somewhat misleading. Still, I loved this, and would recommend!