Still Waiting in 2018 for Benjamin to Get to His Point

I really wish we had more time to discuss Marxism in Literature. Marx's ideas are some of the more interesting that I've learned about in my political science classes, mainly because they upend the traditional discourses on liberty, equality, and justice. He says those are all well and good, but they all boil down to economics, which is a fascinating, acerbic challenge to the way we tend to prefer our philosophy—lyrical and inspirational.

I hoped Benjamin would be the conduit that translated political theory into literary theory, our guide in foreign terrain.
Google informs me that he actually did succeed in doing so, but those revelations have certainly escaped me.

I can only conclude that what Benjamin was saying in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is that the mass replication of art is really a good thing because it lets more people (the proletariat?) experience those pieces of art that were formerly only hoarded by the creators, the privileged, and the few (the bourgeoisie?). But then he gets into some discussion in his Epilogue on Fascism—an ideology to which I thought Communism is vehemently opposed, but on which his comments were puzzling.

In other words, I'm suffering from some mild confusion, and I would love to be enlightened by my esteemed classmates.

So I'll conclude with actual footage of me reading that essay:

"Failed, I Have" 

(and yes I know that quote happens after Palpatine defeats Yoda in the Senate on Coruscant  and Bail Organa is picking him up to escape in his lil speeder car thing but I thought it still worked for this in relation to my experience with Benjamin)

Source: https://i.redd.it/052tx2jpubn01.jpg