(1) The Levellers broke down organs in churches during the English 17th-century Civil War.(2) Benn goes on to say that the founders of the socialist tradition in England were the radical Christian dissenters of the English Revolution (the Levelers and Diggers) who resisted the privatization of communally owned village land.(3) he valued the sport because it was a great leveller(4) They elected u2018agitatorsu2019 to express their views and radical groups like the Levellers gained huge support within the army.(5) By December 1648 the Levellers dominated London, keeping the more moderate members away by force and threat of force.(6) He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers .(7) These uprisings were ruthlessly suppressed, as were the Levellers in England after the Civil War.(8) This dissenting tradition reached its zenith during in the English Revolution of the 1640's where the Levellers played a major role in Cromwell's New Model Army, advocating very radical ideas.(9) It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.(10) Among his political collaborators were artisans, Levellers , former Cromwellian soldiers and republicans.(11) The Levellers developed from a demand for individual freedom of conscience, to demand a comparable political liberty for the individual.(12) Dissent was a complex religious and intellectual tradition that owes its origins, in part, to the radical elements of the English Civil War such as the Levellers , who argued for greater equality.(13) Putney offers a tempting target for u2018revisionismu2019 because of the pervasive association with the Levellers and with democratic and libertarian thought.(14) To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.(15) The Levellers wanted all free-born Englishmen to sign a social contract, an Agreement of the People, and to enjoy full rights of participation in a decentralized, democratic state.(16) He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers , and Thomas Paine.
