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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The New Levellers

There's a lot of a lot of bad translation, like in terms of the a, a, interms of the meaning. So these are the original levellers, rowdy commoners who are upset bit by being told that they would have to starve rather than let the rich maximise their profit. 50 years later, youhave the new levellers. They got given the name as an insult. John lilliburn is one of the leaders, and he preferred the term agitators which makes sense, cause they weren't levelling. But john le lern thing, as this is the thing, the line, i keep looking at it's not hopefuli is the sam

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