Law of Freedom in a Platform or True Magistracy Restored and the True Levellers Standard Advanced (Paperback)

<p><strong>In the beginning of Time the great Creator Reason made the Earth to be a Common Treasury to preserve Beasts Birds Fishes and Man the lord that was to govern this Creation; for Man had Domination given to him over the Beasts Birds and Fishes; but not one word was spoken in the beginning That one branch of mankind should rule over another.</strong> -- Gerrard Winstanley</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>Gerrard Winstanley</strong><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> (1609-1676) was the leader of a agrarian socialist community known as the Diggers who in 1649-50 cultivated common land on St. George's Hill Walton-on-Thames Surrey. He was opposed to the enclosure of land and to hierarchical power structures. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>In </span><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)><em>True Levellers Standard Advanced</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> Winstanley presents his philosophy; a key element is that the Earth is the common treasury of all people and that no group naturally ruled over another.  </span><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)><em>The Law of Freedom in a Platform</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> (1652) is his outline of a communist society.  He is remembered more for his thought and writing than the immediate impact of his actions. He is often called the first socialist or the first anarchist.  </span></p>