The Diggers tried to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small, egalitarian rural communities.

Their belief in economic equality was drawn from Acts of the Apostles 4:32, which describes a community of believers that "had all things in common" instead of having personal property.

The True Levellers advocated for an early form of public health insurance and communal ownership in opposition to individual ownership.

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    If anyone is interested in these pre-capitalist Western European people's movements, Silvia Fererici's Caliban and the Witch is a great read. First two chapters go into tons of stories of these groups and the heretics, and all these weird movements. Really makes you feel less alone and part of a long heritage when you go through these histories and realize people have essentially been fighting this class war forever