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@Capuch1n Most of your edits here are good. I just wanted to make a few things more clear:

1. The Hesiod citation refers to lines 109-129, not pages, since it is an ancient work. I will add "lines" to remove confusion.

2. Marx surely ridiculed the myth of the "Dark Ages" as told by the historians of his day, as should we. But I do think there is room among Marxists for discussing the finer questions of the transition from slave society to feudalism and whether it constituted a change in the preservation of knowledge. The narrowest definition of the term just refers to the bottleneck of ancient texts and contemporary records during the 5th-8th centuries, and I believe it was the very existence of this hiccup which required the Whigs to create a cartoonish narrative to explain it away. At any rate, modern Marxists need somewhere to collate and discuss our different responses to modern bourgeois historiography, and I feel that Leftypedia could serve as just such a platform. I therefore recommend making the language more neutral and linking to a page such as Middle Ages or Feudalism for those who want to read more.

For example: "[...] forced to blame idealist sources like Christian thought for the perceived ignorance of the 'Dark Ages' "

3. I'm not going to mess with the last paragraph, since it seems you tried to add some kind of tag indicating that it was WIP. I'm not well-versed in Wiki syntax, so I don't know what you were trying to do.

Harrystein (talk) 23:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

That wording sounds better; writing that the ignorance of the Dark Ages was mis-perceived or exaggerated can definitely be added in the next edit, when a more suitable replacement for that sentence is come up with. As for the last paragraph, the WIP named reference is short for "What Is Philosophy", and indeed the citation tag worked twice correctly. Capuch1n (talk) 01:38, 21 December 2022 (UTC)