Starting as a theological debate, the Reformation became an ideological struggle against the Catholic Church, and from there a series of revolutions, wars, and civil wars. In this episode, Joe Russell will use this period of revolution as an important case study for historical materialism.

Fatalistic, teleological, class reductionist, Messianic… there’s no end to the high-sounding mutilations that Marx’s ideas receive at the hands of their adversaries. In this podcast, Jack Tye Wilson combats these attacks, and uncovers Marx and Engels’ rich insights into the historical process.

The rule of the bourgeoisie was born in revolution against the feudal order, falsifying the preaching of gradualism and its supposed omnipotence. This epoch demonstrates just as the bourgeois order arose through violent upheaval, so too will its inevitable downfall.