Diggers (True Levellers)

:For other meanings see Diggers (disambiguation) and Levellers (disambiguation)

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Diggers (disambiguation) - Levellers (disambiguation)

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The Diggers were a group, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as "Diggers" due to their activities.

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Gerrard Winstanley - 1649

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Their original name came from their belief in Christian communism based upon a specific passage in the Book of Acts. The Diggers attempted to reform (by "levelling" real property) the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based upon their ideas for the creation of small egalitarian rural communities.

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Christian communism - Book of Acts - Real property - Social order - Agrarian - Egalitarian

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