I’ve read Caliban and the Witch and agree with your friends, but it’s 20 years old. In English language scholarship the discipline doesn’t have big names medieval Marxist scholars that I know of. Also in Caliban and the Witch, she explicitly rejects strict Marxist analysis as well as feminist theory to do a sort of middle ground between them, so I don’t really consider it Marxist (more Marx inspired).

From what I understand of the professional discipline, Marxist history has largely gone by the wayside in “the cultural turn.” Historians are being trained to reject ideology, so a lot of historians will put a stink on anything explicitly Marxist unless it has a wealth of primary sources backing it. More modern topics have more sources available, especially for the lower classes. Basically if you wanna do Marxist history, it’s way less resistance to do it for 19th century and on.

The exception is that Gramsci is still prevalent in medieval scholarship, and where I see Gramscian analysis flourishing is space-place theory. But that doesn’t focus as explicitly on class analysis, more how lived experience filters everything (including class).

Where medieval history is breaking new ground these days is largely with incorporating other disciplines, namely archaeology and linguistics. I think there’s definitely ground to break for medieval Marxists. If history as a profession is going through “the material turn” then there’s gotta be ways to tie in dialectical materialism. But that’s a tall order because economic history (whether Marxist or liberal) likes to have a wealth of numbers to play with, and medieval history just does not have that solid of numerical data.

Yeah sandwich, go for it. Throw some class analysis in there and “it’s like the Elven and Dwarven kings want us to hate each other so we don’t question why we have kings?”

Interesting. I have trouble finding modern literature on medieval history through a Marxist lens.

German prosecutors believe the Ukrainian national suspected of sabotaging Baltic Sea gas pipelines in 2022 acted “on the orders of state authorities in Ukraine.”

Agreed. And who was giving Ukraine orders?

Cracked streams is always what I do for sports.

Despite top House Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (NY), giving rhetorical backing to the resolution this time around, The Intercept reported that they did not formally whip the vote.

Surely using your power to stop Trump from doing something incredibly unpopular, immoral, and bad for the economy is worth whipping votes for. Unless you don’t actually want him to stop Trump completely.

Yeah met a guy in my class who kept taking grad school just cuz the military would pay for it.

If you’re thinking of the train scene that’s Spider-Man 2.

The angle of his elbow makes it look like he’s holding a lil coors light.

Blessed be the news mega.

The bravest Zionist

This is the logical endpoint of landlordism. Their profit is derived from denying home ownership.

He could win my vote if he bailed out the schools in his state that have mass layoffs and budget crisises. But he’s too concerned with winning hypothetical Republican votes in the future and knows that giving money to CA schools would make him unpalatable to conservatives (they already think he’s a demon pedophile )

At this point could Satanyahu even stop his own military?

Anti-Trump liberals who are generally opposed to his actions in Iran but who can still be easily convinced to support American imperialism in the general sense.

Make it a double arch

Lmao this is literally the reason FB and Google are banned in China.

He’d be electable if you fucking vote for them.

Intentionally excluding Sleve McDichael because you can’t admit they’re the best candidate.