Challenge: A Leveller Commonwealth of England

Okay comrades and people who feel uncomfortable with the term comrade :p

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a plausible way for the Levellers to become a coherent, dominant political movement during the English Revolution, and to have, at the very least, a Leveller led alliance win the Civil War and dethrone whosoever may be sitting upon the throne, and for the Commonwealth of England to survive at least until the year 1700.

You must do this, with a POD no later than 1600.
 

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Send in THE DIGGERS!

How about the diggers survive and even grow enormously as a group: cue Dick Gaugan's World Turned Upside Down "In 1649, to St. George's Hill, a ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the peoples WILL, they defied the landlords, they defied the laws, they were the disposed reclaming what was theirs. We come in peace they said, to dig and sow, we come to work the land in common and to make the wasteland grow,t his earth divided, we will make whole, so it can be a common treasury for all. The sin of property, we do disdain, no man has any right to buy and SELL the earth for private gain! By theft and murder they take the lands, and everywhere the walls rise up at their commands!
 
Eh, but how? The Diggers/True Levellers popped up during the the Revolution, and they were never all that numerous IOTL. How do we make Levellers of any sort a viable mass movement?
 

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Cromwell dies shortly after winning the war. The army still has all the power and doesn't want to kowtow to the Rump parliament, but they're electing officers and considering most of them are common born and without much property, if they're running things they probably would advocate universal male sufferage.

Though the Levellers would still be a minority, with only a few MP's. Whatever party the army adopted would probably be the one in power for quite a while.
 
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