Brandishing pikes, thumbscrews and placards made of vellum, mavens of the medieval have emerged from their scriptoria to email denunciations of my comments on the philosophy of that gloomy and primitive era. Well, I was writing somewhat tongue in cheek (can one write tongue in cheek?).
I’m happy, however, to put it on record that, to the best of my belief, Duns Scotus was never a member of the Communist Party.