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

Moreover, abject ‘adjustment’ to suffering and want at times may indicate a sense of reality as impaired as that of the chiliast.

There is a sense in which any religion which places great emphasis on the after-life is the Chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless.

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

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