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Did the Diggers of the English Revolution give themselves that name, or was it a name that they adopted from their detractors?
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fyi, it seems that /u/plusroyaliste may be able to help, as s/he partially answers in this comment
Who were the Diggers, really? Disaffected peasants? Proto-communists? Just another religious faction?