The Law of Freedom in a Platform
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Oct 20, 2026
Teresa BejanGUEST
in a way consistent with their natural equality.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So when Stanley writes this incredible utopia published after the experiment with digging in 1652 called The Law of Freedom in a Platform, and there he's really imagining what a society of equals without buying and selling, without any kind of wage labor would look like.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And I'm really intent in the book on recovering What I call these early modern visions of a society of equals as authentically egalitarian visions.
Teresa BejanGUEST
I emphasize that, you know, you sort of got onto this a bit in your question, because in other ways they look different.
Teresa BejanGUEST
in a way consistent with their natural equality.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So when Stanley writes this incredible utopia published after the experiment with digging in 1652 called The Law of Freedom in a Platform, and there he's really imagining what a society of equals without buying and selling, without any kind of wage labor would look like.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And I'm really intent in the book on recovering What I call these early modern visions of a society of equals as authentically egalitarian visions.
Teresa BejanGUEST
I emphasize that, you know, you sort of got onto this a bit in your question, because in other ways they look different.
Teresa BejanGUEST
in a way consistent with their natural equality.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So when Stanley writes this incredible utopia published after the experiment with digging in 1652 called The Law of Freedom in a Platform, and there he's really imagining what a society of equals without buying and selling, without any kind of wage labor would look like.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And I'm really intent in the book on recovering What I call these early modern visions of a society of equals as authentically egalitarian visions.
Teresa BejanGUEST
I emphasize that, you know, you sort of got onto this a bit in your question, because in other ways they look different.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And so Digger communism is really an effort to imagine how human beings might live together in a way consistent with their natural equality.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So, um, Winstanley writes this incredible utopia, um, published after The Experiment with Digging in 1652 called The Law of Freedom and a Platform.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And there he's really imagining what a society of equals without buying and selling, without any kind of wage labor would look like.
Teresa BejanGUEST
Um, and, uh, I'm really intent in the book on recovering, um, what I call these kind of early modern visions of a society of equals as authentically egalitarian visions.
Teresa BejanGUEST
Um, I emphasize that, even you, you sort of got onto this a bit in your question, because in other ways they look pretty inegalitarian to us.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So in the case of the Diggers, you know, while Marxist historians really liked their communism, they were sort of less enthused about, um, other aspects of Winstanley's utopia.
Teresa BejanGUEST
So in the chapter I really focus on the fact that in The Law of Freedom, Winstanley actually institutes slavery as a key, um, institution in his society of equals.
Teresa BejanGUEST
And that, I mean, that sounds completely, uh, appalling, uh, and, and, and, and incoherent to us from the perspective of the present.