Digging For The Future: An English Radical Manifesto by Charles Leadbeater
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England is not a free people till the poor that have no land have a free allowance to dig and labour the commons, and so live as comfortably as the landlords that live in their enclosures.
Holding power to account, the environment, religious fundamentalism, collaborative innovation and social cohesion might sound like the specific concerns in today's world. However as exposed by Charles Leadbeater (@wethink) the social challenges that we are currently facing draw a close parallel with those that were present in mid 17th century England. In this essay Leadbeater reflects on the happenings and events from the second half of the recently past decade as the beginning of a new economic model for future societies. Rather than a dramatic [and possibly unfeasible] search for a completely new model, Leadbeater proposes a re-organisation of the capitalist model, a social capitalism.
With a preface written by Geoff Mulgan from the Young Foundation, Digging For The Future is a very compelling and reflective attempt to look at our society and the challenges ahead with renewed eyes but applying the learnings from the past.
