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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by scarecrowbob on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:33AM (#23730144)
You're going to have a tough sell with that for folks who haven't read her work. I have, and it was more or less the first thing I thought of when I read the title of the article.

I mean, if "primitive accumulation" isn't a thing you're curious about, then her work is just gonna not make a lot of sense... but I personally find her ideas quite convincing. So I am not surprised when folks who aren't in that political discussion reject theses like those out of hand.

So, yeah, I think it's relevant. Sorry you got folks who don't seem familiar with the material responding as if they were.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by cbHXBY1D on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:38AM (#23730586)
I find that most people are amenable to a materialist conception of history if you just phrase it without the Marxist specific terminology. No need to go into primitive accumulation or explaining dialectics.
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