"Oh no they're feeding people we don't like on land they don't pay our protection racket for, and they self-organized to do it without using coercive hierarchies! Quick, get 'em!"

  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Well, yes, but even before:

    When there were the Levellers there were also the True Levellers (Diggers) which were like "lets just create communes that are awesome, then people won't want to work for the feudal lord. The latter were then killed and tortured to death cause they didn't have self defense squads.

    They were proto-vegan and somewhat feminist though. They also had health insurance... yeah they were much better than the US.

    Diggers

    The Diggers' beliefs were informed by Winstanley's writings which envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings; Winstanley declared that "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".[6] With this the Diggers sought to establish a communistic utopia.[7]

    acab was true back then also:

    The Iver Diggers recorded that nine of the Wellingborough Diggers were arrested and imprisoned in Northampton jail and although no charges could be proved against them the justice refused to release them.

    If it is your first time looking the Levellers and True Levellers/Diggers up, the Ranters (sic!) might be interesting to, example:

    "I can if it be my will, kiss and hug ladies, and love my neighbour's wife as myself, without sin."[2]
— Abiezer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll (1649).

"Kings, Princes, Lords, great ones, must bow to the poorest Peasants."[2]
— Abiezer Coppe, A Fiery Flying Roll (1649).
    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Let me revise that, states began to hate anarchists in the current way as soon as (a) states and anarchists existed in the current way (b) anarchists seemed to be a legitimate threat to states. Nowadays they're not, I think, but the bomb-tossing past of anarchism is a great pretext so they're never gonna give it up.

      Diggers were cool

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      lets just create communes that are awesome, then people won't want to work for the feudal lord.

      well it was in opposition to enclosure but same thing really

      also they didn't have self defence squads because they were under the impression that Oliver Cromwell would support them unfortunately Cromwell was unwilling to restart the civil war over the matter