Eduard Bernstein

Cromwell and Communism (eBook, PDF)

Socialism and Democracy in the Great English Revolution
Übersetzer: Stenning, H. J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000870046
• Artikelnr.: 67486657

Autorenporträt

Eduard Bernstein

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 3.
Early Years of Charles I's Reign, and John Lilburne's 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 Lilburne's 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