This was an ad hoc realisation of the traditional chiliastic yearning for equal shares of the land for all who worked it – ‘black repartition’, as this redistribution was known – and the freedoms that should ensue.

those who have not yet been apprised of the changes they personify regard the writers [...] as chiliastic

the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.