Law of Freedom in a Platform, or True Magistracy Restored - Softcover

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The "constitution" of the Digger Movement in 17th-century England-it is the first program for a radical reconstitution of society written in English. - Gerrard Winstanley's LAW OF FREEDOM IN A PLATFORM was was the first attempt in the English language to restructure the whole of society along avowedly radical lines. By no means a literary Utopia in the tradition of More and Bacon, it was designed as a blueprint for immediate and specific reform, the adoption of which would, in the writer's belief, allow England to achieve an unprecedented degree of peace, harmony, and social justice. It was the final and most important literary production of the Diggers, a tiny band of mid-seventeenth-century visionaries desirous of a social revolution that would remedy the economic grievances of generations of "oppressed commoners." After a year's experiment the Diggers were scattered forever, but they had anticipated and tried briefly to effect some of the ideas most important to nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and economic radicalism: common ownership of re sources, cooperative production of goods, absolute political and social equality among men, and nonviolent resistance against oppressive institutions. Robert W. Kenny is professor of History at George Washington University.

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  • PublisherSchocken Books
  • Publication date1973
  • ISBN 10 0805203893
  • ISBN 13 9780805203899
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages152
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