Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War

About this episode

The episode discusses the German Peasants' War and its implications for insurrectionary struggle and Marxist thought.

Adam is joined by Massimiliano Tomba, O.L. Silverman, and Loren Goldman to discuss the biggest series of uprisings in Europe before the French Revolution, the German Peasants' War, which had its 500th anniversary in 2025. In this discussion, we considered what it meant for everyday people to engage in insurrectionary struggle against Pope and Prince alike, the influence of the conflict on Marxist conceptions of history, the apocalyptic communism of Thomas Müntzer in his allegiance with the pe...

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Guests: Massimiliano Tomba, O.L. Silverman, Loren Goldman

Topics covered

• German Peasants' War
• insurrection
• Marxist history
• apocalyptic communism
• Thomas Müntzer

Keywords

• German Peasants' War
• Thomas Müntzer
• insurrection
• Marxism
• apocalyptic communism
• history
• uprising

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: German Peasants' War

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