Millenarian movements formed a continuous utopian tradition of communal revolution.

Evidence

A third variation of the organic model expressed the needs of peasants and artisans for social revolution. The utopian millenarian tradition called for the complete overthrow of the established social order and its replacement by an egalitarian communal society and state of nature like that anticipated during the millennium—a thousand-year period when Christ would reign on earth and Satan would be banished. The millenarian movements had a historical continuity dating from the medieval crusades of the poor, Joachim of Fiore, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, the Amaurians, Thomas Munster, and the Anabaptists, to the religious sects of the English Civil War—Seekers, Ranters, Levelers, Antinomians, and Muggeltonians. These groups, along with the intellectuals who identified with them, shared a belief in the emergence of a new age of liberty and love in which God would appear from within and there would be equal sharing of food, clothing, and property among all people. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 363

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Diverse millenarian movements are unified by a shared conspiracy theory. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 240; Utopic certainty derives from millenarian traditions of ordained futures. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 690; Each major revolution follows a different inherited ideological script — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1468 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Utopic certainty derives from millenarian traditions of ordained futures. #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 690
• Diverse millenarian movements are unified by a shared conspiracy theory. #expands (0.80) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 240
• Each major revolution follows a different inherited ideological script #complicates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1468
• Millenarian prophecy could channel land grievances into organized anticolonial movements #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1379
• Christian monastic communalism seeded later socialist insurrectionary movements #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 284