“The Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect in a long line of millenarians extending back to the ancient Israelites; in their \u201ctotalitarian\u201d demands on the individual believer the Bolsheviks are cut from the same cloth as the sixteenth-century M\u00fcnster Anabaptists and the original \u201cradical fundamentalist\u201d, Jesus Christ.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect in a long line of millenarians extending back to the ancient Israelites; in their \u201ctotalitarian\u201d demands on the individual believer the Bolsheviks are cut from the same cloth as the sixteenth-cen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism-russia-lenin-bolshevism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-9Mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8384,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/debt-and-the-story-of-civilisation-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":37595,"position":0},"title":"Debt and the story of civilisation","author":"Limbic","date":"March 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Autumn, whilst rumbling across Belgrade on one of the city's ancient trams, I listened to an interview on Tech Nation\u00a0 with Anthropologist David Graeber , about his book \"Debt: The First 5,000 Years\". 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