Levellers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After Charles I was overthrown and beheaded, the Levellers and the Diggers pushed for radical equality and an end to land ownership—objectives that by the play’s end it is painfully clear they will not achieve.
From Slate • May 7, 2018
Into this debate plunge the members of three new radical groups: the Diggers, the Ranters and the Levellers.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018
Formed in 1988, the English rock band The Levellers has been rocking for decades with a blend of folk, punk and traditional rock — all delivered with high energy and deeply personal lyrics.
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2016
The ideas of the Levellers and Diggers were said by the late Labour politician Tony Benn to have helped to shape the American and French revolutions.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2015
For example, at the time of the German reformation and the peasants' war, the Anabaptists and Thomas Münzer; in the great English revolution, the Levellers; in the great French revolution, Babœuf.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich
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