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... um, Andy Garfield, I, you know, I was, I was kind of shocked.

Uh, so in preparation for this, I went back, I read through Rodney Hilton's, uh, classic, his 1973 classic, Bondmen Made Free, which is kind of a comparative study of peasant uprisings throughout Europe, culminating in the, a sort of a close look at the 1381 Peasant Revolt.

Um, as well as some of the first-hand accounts that are collected in this, uh, collection by Dobson, who was another British Marxist historian of the, you know, '50s through the '70s.

Part of that classic generation of British Marxist historians, uh, including Hobsbawm, uh, E.P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, um, all, all those great figures of, uh, British, um, radical history.

Um, but yeah, I mean, I was...

If, if the film had ended, um, with the last scene, and again, we should probably just say from this point on that, that spoilers will abound, uh, in this episode.

Well, do you wanna talk about the, how this affected labor and wages and, like, the, the status of the, the, the commons?

And then thinking about it again, as it was sort of conjured in this populist 2010s moment, we can kind of forget that it comes from 1985 and what the kind of context is in that moment that they're sort of trying to draw out this theory from.

If I can pick up on that, I mean, you raised a lot, but the Althusserian legacy that you mentioned, I think it's maybe helpful to, I mean, not to reduce everything that they write to their biographies, but to... just understand the traditions that they're coming out of.

So, I mean, Laclau, as I understand it, was a left-wing Peronist.

He's Argentinian.

But as he was kind of exiting from Peronism, he became familiar with the works of Althusser.

Some of his first articles were on...

Althusserian concepts move for her part, I think actually attended the reading capital lectures in the sixties and evolved out of that.

They want to take unities that other people posit and reduce them to complexity.