The Law of Freedom

Stanley wanted to return mankind to the state of nature, a philosophical concept that was just beginning to take hold. He wrote that all laws not grounded upon equity and reason ought to be cut off with the king's head. In the utopian society he laid out, when Stanley wanted to abolish buying and selling, just abolish it altogether. But as I said, they are a fascinating little revolutionary eddy, allowed to form in the radicalizing chaos of 1640s.