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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 Diggers

The first digger commune was started by five people, including a guy named William Everard. He stormed a church to declare his various religious truths. That's the way to go. You got to be stormy to church. A lot of my communist friends who believe in like some fairly robust state systems of control. But I share many of their values, but, but not all of them.

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