I think that you are saying that it is not useful to mention the Diggers because

they didn't achieve their aims, and anyway they were unsophisticated in their u
nderstanding of the world so have little to offer the modern age.
I think that you also identify the idea of being political as being largely conc
erned with acts of demagoguery and perhaps in particular the activity of elected
'politicians'and those seeking election.
If this is so, then I would differ from your belief in the first instance and di
ffer from your interpretation in the second.
I believe that a key issue in designing and implementing ecologically and social
ly sustainable settlements is access to land for settlement and co-operative con
trol of assets. This was recognised right from the origins of the Garden City mo
vement. Ebeneezer Howard planned co-operative ownershipm and drawing on the work
of Henry George saw harnessing the 'unearned income' of land value currently co
ncentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners as essential to achieving that
aim. Their was a clear lineage to the Diggers, with their resistance to the encl
osure and privitisation of land. The issue was again key in the town and country
planning act of 1947 which nationalised development rights allowing the develop
ment of 'new towns', the garden city's successors.
As land ownership in the Uk remains highly concentrated, and unaffordable for th
e establishment of new settlements if the increased land value associated with d
evelopment is allowed to becoem the profit of those owners - many of whose estat
es are constitued with land stolen in the enclosures. Private developments have
on the whole proved neither ecologically nor socially sustainable.
Achieving, at the very least, the aims and principles of the Garden City movemen
t will therefore I believe require a political engagement with established privi
lege in favour of the environmentally and socially just. If you can see an other
way, please share it.

'That we may work in righteousness, and lay the Foundation of making the Earth a
Common Treasury for All, both Rich and Poor, That every one that is born in the
Land, may be fed by the Earth his Mother that brought him forth, according to t
he Reason that rules in the Creation. Not Inclosing any part into any particular
hand, but all as one man, working together, and feeding together as Sons of one
Father, members of one Family; not one Lording over another, but all looking up
on each other, as equals in the Creation."
(The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649))
When I see that the champions of this 'social justice' issue are The Daily Mail
and The Daily Telegraph I do wonder who they serve