‘The True Levellers Standard Advanced’ (1649) by Gerrard Winstanley from Works. Cornell University Press, 1941.

‘The True Levellers Standard Advanced’ (1649) by Gerrard Winstanley from Works. Cornell University Press, 1941.

Gerrard Winstanley, one of the most outstanding, transcendent non-Marxist exponents of communism ever to write in words of English, pens the world-changing program of The True Levellers, as the Diggers called themselves. In that revolutionary year of 1649, the English Levellers limited themselves to political equality; the True Levellers demanded, and practiced, social equality–communism. ‘The […]