Quote Originally Posted by Cronos Impera View Post
Authoritarian regimes work best where people are poor and democratic ones where people are wealthy.Just like poor pesants rallied to Charles's banner during the Civil War while the rich rallied to Cromwell's.
Not really. The Parliamentarians had the support of the lower gentry and the up and coming merchants, as well as the ordinary townsfolk in the areas where trade was becoming more important. The Royalists had the support of the aristocracy, as well as the peasants in the more backward areas. It wasn't a case of poor vs rich, it was more about the old economic feudal system losing ground to one based on free trade and capitalism, with political and religious issues polarising the whole episode. It is like the Marxists say, "all history is the history of class struggle" (or something like that).