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The Levellers & The Diggers of Modern England

Out of all the political groups I've managed to get on the inside of, so that I could understand their doctrines properly, the one which provided me the most hope were the Levellers and Diggers in and around London and the south west of England(Wessex), prior to the emergence of anarco tyranny in 2010. 

I used to meet them at a squat somewhere or other, often in an abandoned park or under a motorway bridge. And they always welcomed me. I rarely spent more than a one night stay over with them having to get back to the safety of my warm cosy bed. 

I don't know what it was that made them more authentic than say the communists or free-traders. I think it might have been that it felt like coming home to a family after a long period in the corporate wilderness. Prodigally. 

Sure, they had their problems and I had my issues with their movement. And yes, there were always a few idiots and infiltrators among them spoiling the hard won love. 

But this core homely feeling I got set them apart from the rest of the political movements of the world. The rest had not a single redeeming thing going for them. 

Take note: I am in no ways a communist, which I see as a yet another way to enclose the land and profit, in this case by the state rather than private interests, both of which are inherently unjust and require taxation of private property to mitigate, causing their own deeper social problems. Remembering that land is not wealth so cannot be private property - it can only be common property owned by no one or no institution not even the state. But I am a strong supporter of the abolition of all taxation, except for that on the value of land, which would restore private property to its natural owners and more importantly return the commons to the entire community without the need for ownership by them - that is, the land would be held in common, neither by the state nor private interests. Through confiscation of the rents and abolition of all taxation of private property. People would still be able to have exclusive ownership of the locations. But they would no longer be able to hold it free from rent - freehold. That rent will be used for revenue in direct exchange for taxation on private property.

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