“I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? … And whether this misery shall not remove … when all the branches of mankind shall look upon the earth as one common treasury to all.” - Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 1649
But history as a product of class struggle? Not even Sir Thomas More, the unspoken “founder” of utopian socialism, had this insight.
You’re right, I overlooked the fact that he’s saying class struggle produces history and took wars, bloodshed, and misery too literally. Then maybe he is ahead of his time!
FYI, I found this quote in Caliban and the Witch, which I recommend if you haven’t read it already (: