Despite being massacred, and despite the king's promise to make life health for them and their descendants for all eternity, life actually improved for the peasants over the next decades. And if you think today's kids are bad, get a load of the mouth on 14 year old king richard. Surfs you have been and surfs you shall remain in bondage, not such as you have hitherto been subjected to, but incomparably viola. For so long as we live and rule, by god's grace, over this kingdom, we shall use our strength, sense and property to treat you that your slavery may be an example to posterity"
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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.
