What an unlikely combination. “Marx considered that the Glorious Revolution was “the first decisive victory of the bourgeoisie over the feudal aristocracy”. Article online here from 2019 by the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist, which is a review of historian Dr Steven Pincus' 2011 book on the era.
"The revolution was not about religion, not about identity politics ... It was a long step towards a more secular society, in which disputes about religion were less significant than debates about economics and politics."
The Karl Marx article that the extract above came from appears to have been printed in the New York Daily Tribune on 11 July 1853. See here on marxists.org
Marx also refers to William Cobbett, who he thought was prone to "look for popular liberty rather in the past than in the future", and who was the author of A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland which is regarded as a fair and balanced account of those events (online here).
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