What Is the Best Health Care System in the Universe?
It's extremely rare for a society as a whole to all choose something in unison. Society chooses this or that means that some members of society managed to get their way versus other people who probably didn't want that particular thing. Different classes of people have different class interests. So although it makes the best sense to adopt matrolocal residence, when men are away for long periods, having villages based on related women, men take some power away from men.
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Human beings have free will, but our actions are constrained by material realities. Understanding how material and practical conditions shape human behaviour can make all the difference between success and catastrophic failure when it comes to the whole spectrum of political action, from private sector negotiation, to crafting legislation, to making a revolution.
In this episode we look at:
The relationship between economic activity and the high status of women in traditional Haudenosaunee / Iroquois society
How World War I helped women win the right to vote in Europe and North America
How World War II catalyzed the Black civil rights movement in the United States.
The success, failure, and accidental success of the English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381
The implications of the Anarchist Revolution in Spain in 1936-1939 for the future of industrial civilization.
