Levellers, True Levellers, and The Diggers of 1649 (3 of 3)

[africkinamerican]

Please upload the rest of this!

[africkinamerican]

Cool! I dig the diggers. I'm a Georgist, but I like the direct action approach too ....

[FA8T]

Can you upload the rest? I was getting into that.

[nd017]

@FA8T yes please!

[Dylanius]

As a drunken alcoholic, I have to ask you: wtf is this?

[olliewood99]

i think it is shit go back to your caravan you pikeys

[sbor2020]

World Turned Upside Down

(Leon Rosselson)

In 1649, to St George's Hill a ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the peoples' will they defied the Landlords, they defied the laws they were the dispossessed, reclaiming what was theirs

"We come in peace" they said, to dig and sow

we come to work the lands in common and to make the wastegrounds grow this earth divided, we will make whole so it will be a common treasury for all

[OttOmOlOtOv]

Very true. Proof that even small steps in the direction of freedom are important in an historical sense.

[KrilaSounds]

Yep, some 360 years after the Putney Debates, and we still do not have the freedom or equal rights set out by the Levellers Lawyers and Gerrard Winstanley. Still, if it wasn't for them, we would be in even more oppressive chains.

[inckamarx]

but the state will seek to claw back all these and it is only through struggle that they can be stopped each time. to remove the state which defends the current property relations would be to remove the state which removes our liberties.

[Blobulous]

Wow, This is incredible. I'd never heard of the diggers before, but after seeing this undoubtedly they were forbears of Kropotkin. Thanks so much for uploading this.

[davesamain]

Bless ua all, brothers and sisters - still in chains.