you know haha funny 5 person book club, selling papers, marxists.org
but if we are in the “dark age” of leftism currently are they the equivalent of Irish monks copying ancient Marxist texts for safekeeping?
maybe those 5 person book clubs are monastic circles with complex scholarly initiation rites
those papers, well somebody has got to retain the skills to publish physical media
and marxists.org is basically the marxism library of alexandria
Only small minority were, as most monastic orders were founded to pray and only in some monks laboured. Overwhelming most of monasteries were funded with some kind of backing, so they either had serfs or some other income as fiefs. Both catholic and orthodox churches were nearly always biggest landowners in their countries.