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Eduard Bernstein

Cromwell and Communism

Socialism And Democracy
in the Great English Revolution

(1895)

Eduard Bernstein, Kommunistische und demokratisch-sozialistische Strömungen während der englischen Revolution, J.H.W. Dietz, Stuttgart 1895.
Reprinted as Eduard Bernstein, Sozialismus und Demokratie in der großen englischen Revolution, J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger, Stuttgart 1908-1922.
Eduard Bernstein, Cromwell and Communism, George Allen & Unwin, London 1930/1963.
Translated by H.J. Stenning.
Reprinted by Spokesman, Nottingham 1980.
Transcribed by Ted Crawford. (note)
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

I. Introduction

II. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
1. Economic and Social Development
2. Political and Religious Conditions. Ket’s Insurrection
3. The Utopia of Lord Chancellor Bacon

III. Early Years of Charles I’s Reign. John Lilburne’s Youth and First Persecutions

IV. Parliament and the Monarchy

V. Parliament and the National Army. Presbyterians, Independents and other sects

VI. The Levellers versus the “Gentlemen” Independents

VII. The Struggle for Democracy and the Levellers’ Agreement of the People

VIII. Atheistic And Communistic Tendencies in the Levellers’ Movement

IX. The “True” Levellers and Their Practical Communism

X. The Communistic Utopia of Gerrard Winstanley

XI. The Levellers’ Revolt in the Army. Lilburne’s Last Years and Death

XII. Historical Significance of Lilburne and the Levellers

XIII. Conspiracies and Religious Offshoots of the Popular Democratic Movement

XIV. Political Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century. Hobbes and Harrington

XV. Peter Cornelius Plockboy

XVI. The Quakers in the Seventeenth Century
1. Rise and Principles of Quakerism
2. James Naylor, the King of Israel
3. The Economic and Social Aspects of Quakerism

XVII. John Bellers, Champion of the Poor and Advocate of a League of Nations
1. The College of Industry
2. Bellers’ Essays and Other Writings

Conclusion

 

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