The Mile End Cave In or The Smithfield Demand?

 This month marks the 340th Anniversary of The Peasants' Revolt.

The significance for us is the first face-to-face meeting on dry land between the young King Richard and the protesters.

To his question, 'What do you want?'they, apparently, asked that land rents be pegged at 2d per acre. Not the two shillings (2s) to which they had risen.

He agreed.

However, a more clear-thinking group, including Wat Tyler, requested (demanded?) a second meeting at Smithfield.

There, the demand was to replace what this group saw as the problem: the Aristocracy.

(But not The Monarchy.)

At that point, as I understand, it, Robert Walworth, Head of The Guild of Fishmongers at Fishmongers' Hall stepped forward and stabbed Wat Tyler in the neck.

With the infamous 'Red Dagger'.

So that system-change revolt dissolved away.

My question to us, then, is:

   -  'Do we wish to see System Change? Ie, as with the Smithfield Demand; which in our time is the abolition and replacement of Capitalism.

Or do we want a System Adjustment:

   - Such as the introduction of a mealy-mouthed, Mean-tested, Universal *Basic* Income: the Mile End con.