Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "George Floyd: The Antichrist?" video.
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@meeper46 It started with the communal sects, such as the Brownists and Quakers, etc., which gave us the Levelers and Diggers. The Brownists were the first to step ashore in the US, and founded the Plymouth Colony. Communal living and utopianism came from them. The idea of not owning land came from the protests of the fencing of the commons.
However, socialism was brought into post-secondary education by one sect that goes by two names in two nations, since they control the oldest major universities. In the UK, it is the Anglicans, and in the US, it is the Episcopalians that were once called Anglicans. Oxford and Columbia U was where that started in post-secondary ed.
Anglican pastors started preaching socialism around the time of the US Civil War when Marx was having his screeds published by Greeley in his New York newspaper. By the late 1800s, in Boston, and at the Church of the Carpenter (Episcopalian), they founded the first correspondence school for it called the Karl Marx School. It flopped, so they went to NYC, where they eventually set up the Rand School of Social Science, and that was later incorporated into Columbia U by Dewey and others in the clergy. At Oxford, it happened the same under Ruskin.
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@Gilberto90 Nietzsche knew of some rather old Christian sects tied to Gnosticism, which were the Radical Hussites in pre-Luther Bohemia. From them also came Socinianism and Unitarianism. In Prague, their believers were also professors within their university, and they were allowed to stay after the RCC sent in one of their last crusades to put the Hussites down. From Prague, these beliefs spread into the other European universities tied to the church. This also led to the creation of the German Mennonites and the Amish, two other communal sects. All of this spread under Protestantism and intermixed in the communal sects, leading to what became known as socialist thought.
If you get a chance, look into the two of the communal sects tied to the Hussites, which in the 13th century Netherlands was the Neo-Adamites or Brethren of the Free Spirit, and also the Taborites in Bohemia. That was a rather disgusting sect that believed that you had to also commit every sin to go to heaven. These beliefs can be traced back to ancient Gnostic sects in Alexandria, Egypt. These were the forerunners of modern Mennonites.
It is believed that the people within the Pale of Settlement obtained some of their ideas from the above-mentioned communal sects before relocating to the Levant.
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@jazeenharal6013 We can't leave out Thomas More's role in it, as he penned the book: Utopia. It is said that this is where the word originated within the communal sects. The book "is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of [the] life in monasteries," and it was the life within the monasteries that is the basis of communal living and the co-op.
More was supposedly a staunch Catholic, but he seemed to be radicalized somewhat to me, as in his book of fiction, he ragged on the RCC somewhat as well as the enclosure of the commons, agreeing with the Protestants. We all know what happened next over Henry VIII, as he was hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason.
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