I recently listened to this podcast: What’s Left of Philosophy

It reminded me of this film that was an early encouragement to activism. In honour of Gerrard Winstanley’s Birthday here’s a link to the movie on the internet archive.

Winstanley details the story of the 17th-century social reformer and writer Gerrard Winstanley, who, along with a small band of followers known as the Diggers, tried to establish a self-sufficient farming community on common land at St George’s Hill (“Diggers’ Hill”) near Cobham, Surrey. The community was one of the world’s first small-scale experiments in socialism or communism, and its ideas were copied elsewhere in England during the time of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, but it was quickly suppressed, and in the end left only a legacy of ideas to inspire later generations of socialist theorists.