In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences - by Teresa M Bejan Read on Aeon

There is a complex debate about the extent to which socialists prioritize equality above the full flowering of each person’s individuality. But you’d have to be quite the contrarian to deny that socialists take equality very seriously; perhaps more seriously than any other major political ideology. Prominent socialist…