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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: June 13, 2021, 05:06:13 PM »

Levellers existed as a third side.

This is not correct, they were a political faction in the New Model Army and a particularly hardline one at that. There was a third side, however, the so-called 'Clubmen': armed bands of vigilantes who sought to protect property from the depredations of the armies of both sides. They were particularly strong in the West Country.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2021, 09:45:50 AM »

The big issue with the Levellers is though they are right in retrospect, they were completely inflexible political idiots who quickly threw their briefly quite strong leverage away. (Rather fitting, given they arose in opposition to the biggest political idiot in British history)

Extremely British_Socialism.txt one must admit.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2021, 09:48:58 AM »

Even better. Could they be an option???

There was a particularly hilarious moment when they actually occupied a hillfort in Dorset, refused to leave and had to be violently dispersed by Cromwell.
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