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chiliastic (en)

(adj) another term for millenarian (the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson


The very rigour of his environmental and mechanical materialism meant that he must either despair or proclaim a secular chiliasm.

—p.787 Class Consciousness (711) by E.P. Thompson
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