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Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The New Fangled Diggers

The new fangled diggers, at least all the history that I found, is like, we don't know how they funded all of this. But I would argue that I have a sense of how they funded it because I'm going to assume they fund it the way that modern anarchists fund it. They are selling drugs and sex work and scams, sympathetic people who have regular jobs and folks who come from generational wealth. The latter quality is probably the biggest part of the income and hitting up people for money. It's probably fundraising essentially. Like, to me, it's not this huge mystery. And they lasted longer than original diggers, which is sort of amazing because the original dig

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