Remembering the Diggers
Though often forgotten, the Diggers of the English Revolution were egalitarian radicals well before their time. No account of socialist history is complete without them.
Ed Simon is a staff writer for the Millions and an editor at Berfrois. His book Furnace of This World; or, 36 Observations about Goodness is available from Zero Books, who will also be releasing his collection Printed in Utopia: The Renaissance’s Radicalism in 2020.
Though often forgotten, the Diggers of the English Revolution were egalitarian radicals well before their time. No account of socialist history is complete without them.
Since its publication in 1516, Thomas More’s Utopia has helped us aspire to a just society.