Cromwell and Communism: Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution

292 Pages·1963·123.403 MB·English

by  Bernstein, Eduard

E D U A R D B E R N S T E IN
Cromwell
an6 Communism
Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution
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CROMWELL AND COMMUNISM

CROMWELL COMMUNISM
&
SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY
IN THE GREAT
EN G LISH REVOLUTION
by
E D U A R D B E R N S T E I N
SCHOCKEN BOOKS • NEW YORK
Translated from Sozialismus und
Demokratie in der grossen englischen
1895
Revolution ( ) by H. J. Stenning
All rights reserved.
This edition is printed by arrangement
with George Allen & Unwin Ltd. who first
published this book in 1930.
First SCHOCKEN PAPERBACK edition 1963
Library of Congress Catalog No. 63-18392
Manufactured in the United States of America
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Introduction 9
II. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth
Century 12
1. Economic and Social Development 12
2. Political and Religious Conditions. Ket’s Insur­
rection 18
3. The “Utopia” of Lord Chancellor Bacon 31
III. Early Years of Charles I’s Reign. John Lilburne’s
Y outh and First Persecutions 34
IV. Parliament and the Monarchy 42
V. Parliament and the National Army. Presbyterians,
Independents, and Other Sects 49
VI. T he Levellers versus the “ Gentlemen” Independents 61
VII. T he Struggle for Democracy and the Levellers’
“Agreement of the People” 77
VIII. Atheistic and Communistic Tendencies in the
Levellers’ Movement 90
IX. T he “True” Levellers and T heir Practical Com­
munism 105
X. T he Communistic Utopia of Gerrard Winstanley 116
XI. T he Levellers’ Revolt in the Army. Lilburne’s
Last Years and Death 133
XII. Historical Significance of Lilburne and the
Levellers i59
XIII. Conspiracies and Religious Offshoots of the
Popular Democratic Movement 172
XIV. Political Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century.
Hobbes and Harrington 188
CROMWELL AND COMMUNISM
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Peter Cornelius Plockboy 213
T he Quakers in the Seventeenth Century 225
1. Rise and Principles of Quakerism 225
2. James Naylor, the King of Israel 236
245
3. The Economic and Social Aspects of Quakerism
John Bellers, Champion of the Poor and Advocate
253
of a League of Nations
253
1. The College of Industry
2. Bellers’ Essays and Other Writings 268
Conclusion 281
Index 283
CROMWELL AND COMMUNISM