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Page 83
... Levellers was most certainly one between classes . Whereas the Independents were essentially a bourgeois political grouping , the Levellers were , in Brailsford's words , ' a third force , drawn from the lower middle class , the skilled ...
... Levellers was most certainly one between classes . Whereas the Independents were essentially a bourgeois political grouping , the Levellers were , in Brailsford's words , ' a third force , drawn from the lower middle class , the skilled ...
Page 84
... Levellers thought that all men except servants and alms - takers were free men . For both Levellers and army leaders franchise was properly dependent on freedom , and freedom meant individual economic independence . But the two groups ...
... Levellers thought that all men except servants and alms - takers were free men . For both Levellers and army leaders franchise was properly dependent on freedom , and freedom meant individual economic independence . But the two groups ...
Page 85
... Leveller Party as a whole , was finally decided by the crushing of the Leveller mutiny at Burford.83 The class basis of this political opposition is readily discernible . For whilst the Levellers , unlike the Diggers , affected no ...
... Leveller Party as a whole , was finally decided by the crushing of the Leveller mutiny at Burford.83 The class basis of this political opposition is readily discernible . For whilst the Levellers , unlike the Diggers , affected no ...
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The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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