Enclosure was the mark of perverted desire for the sacramental goods of the earth. A year later, delivering A New-Yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie (1650), Winstanley extended his prophetic range to include the entire political system, sounding the inaugural notes in what would become the tradition of modern anarchism. There are two kinds of kingly power, he explained: one, that of “Almightie God, ruling the whole creation in peace … the power of universall love,” and the other “the power of unrighteousness, which indeed is the Devil,” the monarchy that superintends the satanic regime of
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