John Bellers

John Bellers (* 1654 in London, † February 8, 1725 ) was an English Quaker, economist and social reformer.

Life

He was a contemporary of George Fox and William Penn and pleaded for a " College of Industry" as a cooperative educational institution for unemployed arms.

With reference to Penn's approach and Sully's Grand Dessein he struck before 1710, Europe, divide maintaining the existing state borders in 100 cantons, each of which transmits a delegate to the European Parliament. He has also been suggested as first the preparation of an international force.

Eduard Bernstein claimed in 1919 to have rediscovered him as the first; where he was known to Marx.

Publications (selection)

• Essays about the Poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demostrated from the attributes of God and the nature of man's soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures
• Some of Reasons for Proposed European State to the Powers of Europe
• An Essay towards the improvement of Physick
• Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all Useful Trades and Husbandry; 1695
• Some Reasons for on European State, Proposed to the Powers of Europe, by at Universal Guarantee, and at Annual Congress, Senate, Dyet, Parliament or; 1710