Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "David Starkey: The Woke Reformations: Historical Parallels" video.

  1. I've always placed today's radical ideology as evolving more from the radical communal sects in Protestantism, which was pre-Luther, and centered in Bohemia with the Radical Hussites. From their successors came communalism, and shunning those who did not believe the same as them. They were also guilty of witch hunts, etc., and they were violent as well. This early radical Dissenter Movement led to Socinianism and the Anabaptists, such as Quakers. From them came the groups such as the Levellers and Diggers, as well as the London Underground Church with the Brownists, and it seems that these movements were where those like Robert Owen and Engels obtained their ideas, as well as Babeuf and Saint-Simon in France. Their communalist utopian ideology was merely hijacked for the secular community. This later infected mainstream Protestantism, with the Anglicans and Episcopalians, where we saw Christian Socialism and Christian Communism appear.
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