| Law of Freedom in a Platform, or True Magistracy Restored and the True Levellers Standard Advanced (Paperback) Contributor(s): Winstanley, Gerrard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849028591 ISBN-13: 9781849028592 Publisher: Benediction Books OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History | Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" (0.58 lbs) 174 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, to preserve Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Man, the lord that was to govern this Creation; for Man had Domination given to him, over the Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; but not one word was spoken in the beginning, That one branch of mankind should rule over another." -- Gerrard Winstanley Gerrard Winstanley, (1609-1676) was the leader of a agrarian socialist community known as the Diggers, who in 1649-50 cultivated common land on St. George's Hill, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He was opposed to the enclosure of land, and to hierarchical power structures. In True Levellers Standard Advanced Winstanley presents his philosophy; a key element is that the Earth is the common treasury of all people, and that no group naturally ruled over another. The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652) is his outline of a communist society. He is remembered more for his thought and writing than the immediate impact of his actions. He is often called the first socialist or the first anarchist. |