From: john <john-AT-svejk.org>
Subject: Re: AUT: Communists and Religious Movements?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:15:08 +0100


EP Thompson, Christopher Hill, AL Morton and the other members of the 
CPGB Historians Group.

There's a vast quantity of material on the English Interregnum sects - 
Hill's "World Turned Upside Down" is still the best introduction to 
this. Depending on what you consider "radical", there's also a lot on 
the Puritans.

There were many important theoretical and historiographic ramifications 
of this concentrated study of the period 1640-1660. I read - I think in 
an obituary of EPT, possibly the one by Linebaugh in the New Left 
Review - that Thompson even defined himself as 'a Marxist, of the 
Muggletonian sort.' The extreme anti-evangelism of the Muggletonians is 
certainly attractive.

There's been quite a lot of writing about the CPGB historians, though 
I've not really kept up with it. the autobiographical articles of Hill 
and Thompson are probably the best place to start.

John


On 4 Apr 2004, at 23:27, Thiago Oppermann wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am putting together an article on left attitudes to radical religious
> movements and was wondering if anyone has ideas about sources on this.
>
> Radical religious movements that I am thinking about are the sort 
> dealt with
> in Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millenium, Vittorio Lanternari's 
> Religions
> of the Oppressed, Peter Worsley's the Trumpet Shall Sound... Communist
> interest in this sort of thing dates back at least to Engels' Peasant 
> War in
> Germany.
>
> I'll leave 'the left' vague enough.
>
> I am also interested in Stalinists recuperations - eg. the Dong Hak 
> movement
> in North Korea, the Boxer rebellion in China and the  Communist Party 
> of
> Australia with the cargo cults. Perhaps some critiques of left 
> practice as
> cultish.
>
> Thiago Oppermann
>
>
>
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