Casualties of History: The Kingdom Within

We cover chapters one and two — "Members Unlimited" and "Christian Apollyon" — on this week's episode. Rachel Foxley, a professor of history at the University of Reading and author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution, joins us to talk about the English Revolution. Secondary Reading: Rachel Foxley, The Levellers (https://www.amazon.com/Levellers-Political-Revolution-Politics-Hardcover/dp/0719089360) (Manchester University Press, 2013). Christopher Hill, The Experience of Defeat (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/540816/the-experience-of-defeat-by-christopher-hill/9781784786694) (Verso, 2017). Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1128-the-many-headed-hydra) (Verso, 2014). CB Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-political-theory-of-possessive-individualism-9780195444018?cc=us&lang=en&) (Oxford University Press, 2011). Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/203997/social-origins-of-dictatorship-and-democracy-by-barrington-moore-jr/) (Beacon Press, 1993). Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism (https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/democracy-against-capitalism-renewing-historical-materialism?format=PB) (Cambridge University Press, 1995).