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How Marxists View the Middle Ages

Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/marxism-middle-ages-medieval-antiquity-economic-theory-history-capitalism/