Socialist at Sea

Had murry lived in the seventeenth century, there can be no doubt whatever that he would have taken his place beside Fox and Harrison as the founder of some dissident, millenarian sect. Even as it was, his cry was the same as theirs: Repent, and flee from the wrath to come! Only, the wrath he predicted was secular – the ‘unimaginable catastrophe and horror’ ¹ of war; and the repentance he preached, social – the supersession of capitalist individualism by the equalitarian ‘economics of Jesus’. ²