Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the first beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims in the English revolution and subsequent civil war. The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war. The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
1. Introduction
2. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
3. Early Years of Charles Is Reign, and John Lilburnes Youth and First
Persecutions
4. Parliament and the Monarchy
5. Parliament and the National
Army, and Presbyterians, Independents and Other Sects
6. The Levellers versus
the Gentlemen Independents
7. The Struggle for Democracy and the Levellers
Agreement of the People
8. Atheistic and Communistic Tendencies in the
Levellers Movement
9. The True Levellers and their Practical Communism
10.
The Communistic Utopia of Gerard Winstanley
11. The Levellers Revolt in the
Army, and Lilburnes Last Years and Death
12. Historical Significance of
Lilburne and the Levellers
13. Conspiracies and Religious Offshoots of the
Popular Democratic Movement
14. Political Philosophy of the Seventeenth
Century, and Hobbes and Harrington
15. Peter Cornelius Plockboy
16. The
Quakers in the Seventeenth Century
17. John Bellers, Champion of the Poor and
Advocate of a League of Nations
Eduard Bernstein
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