Cromwell & Communism

by Bernstein, Eduard; Stenning, H. J.

• ISBN13: 9780851246307
• ISBN10: 0851246303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Spokesman Pr

Summary

Cromwell and Communism was originally published as one of the volumes of Karl Kautsky's comprehensive history of socialism. It was translated into English, in which language it first appeared in 1930. In spite of the advances in modern scholarship which have taken place since that date, Eduard Bernstein is still a valuable source on his chosen subject. At the same time, his sociological imagination is strikingly revealed in this seminal work.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 5
Introduction	p. 9
England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century	p. 12
Early Years of Charles I's Reign. John Lilburne's Youth and First Persecutions	p. 34
Parliament and the Monarchy	p. 42
Parliament and the National Army. Presbyterians, Independents, and Other Sects	p. 49
The Levellers versus the "Gentlemen" Independents	p. 61
The Struggle for Democracy and the Levellers' "Agreement of the People"	p. 77
Atheistic and Communistic Tendencies in the Levellers' Movement	p. 90
The "True" Levellers and Their Practical Communism	p. 105
The Communistic Utopia of Gerrard Winstanley	p. 116
The Levellers' Revolt in the Army. Lilburne's Last Years and Death	p. 133
Historical Significance of Lilburne and the Levellers	p. 159
Conspiracies and Religious Offshoots of the Popular Democratic Movement	p. 172
Political Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. Hobbes and Harrington	p. 188
Peter Cornelius Plockboy	p. 213
The Quakers in the Seventeenth Century	p. 225
John Bellers, Champion of the Poor and Advocate of a League of Nations	p. 253
Conclusion	p. 281
Index	p. 283
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