Sent this to the only xian communism nerd I know in the meatspace and this is what they said: [A THREAD] https://twitter.com/partizan_the/status/1313581303346978816

“Burned at the stake at the council of Constance in 1415 (after he had been granted [?] by Emperor Sigmund von Luxembourg).

“He’s considered a precursor to the reformation, as he also advocated (influenced by Wycliffe) that the scriptures should be read in vernaculars and clergy should be able to marry

“His death sparked the Hussite wars, which devastated Bohemia, but also meant that Hussites, and later other branches of the radical reformation, dominated Bohemia until the battle of the White Mountain in 1619

“You should also take a look at Thomas Muntzer (who lead the peasants war in Germany. Here’s a classic account: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/) .

“You might also want to take a look at the Levelers and 5th Monarchy Men in civil war era Britain if you’re looking for other radical forms of Christian proto- communism

“Recommended to me https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Anthropology_of_Marxism.html?id=E0CEDwAAQBAJ One of his major complaints about Marx is his unwillingness to acknowledge or appreciate the deeply religious (even Medieval) roots of socialist thought and action.

“On an interesting side note: when Muntzer’s peasant army marched against the German Princes, they did so under the first known iteration of the rainbow flag...” [end]