SOURCE: "Oliver Cromwell," in The English Revolution of the 17th Century Through Portraits of Its Leading Figures, Progress Publishers, 1990, pp. 115-211.
In the following excerpt, Barg uses Cromwell's speeches to examine his final, troubled years in power and relies on the theories of Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels to explain Cromwell's attitude toward the poor and the bourgeoisie.
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