Cavadores
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The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with a political ideology and programme resembling what would later be called agrarian socialism. Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard, amongst many others, were known as True Levellers in 1649, in reference to their split from the Levellers, and later became known as Diggers because of their attempts to farm on common land. Due to this and to their beliefs, the Diggers were driven from one county after another by the authorities.
Key facts
- Political party.name
- True Levellers
- Political party.leader
- Gerrard Winstanley
- Political party.logo
- Levellers declaration and standard.gif
- Political party.caption
- Woodcut from a Levellers document by William Everard
- Political party.colorcode
- red
- Political party.founded
- 1649
- Political party.dissolved
- 1651
- Political party.split
- Levellers
- Political party.ideology
- AgrarianismUtopian socialismRadicalismProto-anarchismRepublicanismUniversal suffragePopulism
- Political party.position
- Left-wing
- Political party.religion
- Dissenter Protestantism
- Political party.country
- England
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Wikidata facts
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Political ideology
- radical politics
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- Kana Nishino
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Article · Español
Los Cavadores (Diggers, en inglés) eran un grupo cristiano radical que surgió al final de la guerra civil inglesa. Fue fundado en 1649 por Gerrard Winstanley y constituyó el ala izquierda de los demócratas levellers (niveladores) ya que también cuestionaron el derecho de propiedad. Sin embargo, las ideas y las propuestas de los diggers tuvieron un escaso impacto en la sociedad inglesa. Como ha señalado Jacques Droz, «no fue más que uno de los aspectos, el más nihilista, del puritanismo inglés del siglo XVII». En un principio se hicieron llamar «Verdaderos Niveladores» (True Levellers).
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