Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England.

Kennedy, Geoff

Abstract

This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of newly emerging conceptions of the state and property--with attendant notions of accumulation, labour and the common good--groups such as the Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of newly constituted forms of political and economic power.

Citation

Kennedy, G. (2008). Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism: Radical Political Thought in Seventeenth Century England. Lexington Books

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: 2008
• Deposit Date: Feb 14, 2011
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1125244
• Publisher URL: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739123744