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DashCarlile 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is an interesting take on it. Diggers called themselves the "True Levellers."

Somebody else mentioned the diggers. Found this and figured I might as well pass it on.

http://bcw-project.org/church-and-state/sects-and-factions/diggers

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borscht-nazi 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

The history of these ideas development is a pretty fascinating subject if you look at it from the perspective of humanity's collective consciousness.

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DashCarlile 2 points ago +2 / -0

Strange and interesting that the BEST and the WORST political ideologies ever possibly stem from the same short-lived movement in England nearly 400 years ago.

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borscht-nazi 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think the ideology itself isn't new, even pre-Christian Russia had a form of a representative government, for instance, and we are talking like 9th century and shit.

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DashCarlile 2 points ago +2 / -0

I’m thinking the offshoots of egalitarianism and socialism.

Most democracies still would have had a caste system of some sort.