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It is said that at some point, at Berctesgarten, Adolf told the King of Romania not to smoke in his presence. King Carol II soon wrote in his book "How does a corporal tell a King what to do?"
Hi! Thanks for stopping by, I'll try to answer them all.
1) A monarch doesn't achieve its power by popularity but by legitimacy. (Both can be combined, but this doesn't have to be the case) Legitimacy is, in most forms of monarchy, achieved by birthright. Elective monarchy is also a thing, where elections could happen democratically or based on an aristocracy (Like the HRE). Hereditary (birthright) monarchy is basically inheritance, I have the right to own the house my parents live in after their death, the Heir has the right over the kingdom after the monarch dies.
2) Trained from birth is, obviously, not foolproof. It however does elevate the quality of a leader on average over someone that hasn't been trained from birth. The birthright also gives a very selfish reason to take care of the people and the country. No one is served with angry, poor citizens, happy, well-off citizens give way less trouble and more taxes without having to increase the taxerate.
3) After reading liberty or equality I am increasingly more convinced that a democracy is a road too dangerous to travel, so I'd say no. If I could build my own world, all nations would be a monarchy. (This is obviously impossible, but since the question is that I can do what I want I don't have to consider some limitations)
4) Don't care, opressing people because of their religion, sexuality,... is going away and that is very much a good thing.
You wonder what Bismarck himself would have thought about this. Considering that he seems to have been into new technology--we have an audio recording of him speaking into an Edison wax cylinder--he might have been ok with it
Constitutional. Chad's just going to catch a dozen STDs and die in a bar fight before he's 30, like the Bourbons did.
I'd be happiest with a system that was close to the US, but with a king instead of a president and a bit more decentralization of power. But I think that even a crowned republic is better than an uncrowned one; Jung believed implicitly, Lewis explicitly, that a country is happiest with a king.
Yuan dynasty may get a bad rep but it was good for something. Rice production definitely improved, and I think it's safe to say they had the Mandate of Heaven.
Here is a Good intro imo.
Also, This site is decent
It hasn’t been (and probably won’t be) translated in German, but here is a link.
The author is also active on Facebook and shares a lot of information there.
You might find this book of interest. You might want to get it from a library though if you can find it, it's not worth the cost on Amazon.
Not working for me, but maybe we're overloading the site with too many visitors. I'll try again later. Thanks anyway, OP.
SOLVED: I had to temporarily disable my VPN (Private Internet Access) for the site to work for me.
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The Prince is pretty good, but Machiavelli is a Republican. His Discorsi also have some noce passages. Apart from that I´d look at Liberty or Equality
No. Society’s leaders today are apathetic and non devout and that attitude in leadership is contagious. It is a damnable sin, and apathy today cannot subtract from this subjective opinion. Read this book by Michael Hoffman to see why it’s no longer vocally condemned.
The United States armed the Republican Freemasonic faction during the Mexican Civil War (which led to the execution of Emperor Maximilian) and during the Mexican Civil War, opposing the Cristeros. The United States also repeatedly stole Mexican territory. A good book on the history of Mexico is the following: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Drenched-Altars-Catholic-Commentary-History-ebook/dp/B01DPUL60O
The United States is no friend of Mexico.
Here is the link to the portrait on Amazon (Canada)
*sigh* alright let me open up my book Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941
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>The English, French and German Jews were all in cahoots with one another. Their sole aim was to establish the Jewish domination of the world. Therefore they first had to enslave the German people completely.
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>Pg. 1234 - Remarks to his doctor, Dr Haehner
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>All the Jews needed to be expelled from the press, none of them could be allowed to work their poison in this way, one day I would see, on my restoration, a pogrom of a different and more effective kind than all those in Galicia!
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>Pg. 1235 - Remarks to his doctor, Dr Haehner
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>They Jews belong to the Coloured Races and not the European White Race which they intend to enervate, subjugate and destroy!
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>Pg. 1237 - Letter to George Sylvester Viereck
And finally my personal favorite
>Press, Jews & Mosquitoes...are a nuisance that humanity must get rid of in some way or another. I believe the best would be gas?
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>Pg. 1238 - Letter to Poultney Bigelow
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>Under the deeply moving impression of France's capitulation I congratulate you and all the German armed forces on the God-given prodigious victory with the words of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great of the year 1870: "What a turn of events through God's dispensation!" All German hearts are filled with the chorale of Leuthen, which the victors of [the Battle of] Leuthen, the soldiers of the Great King sang [in 1757]: Now thank we all our God!
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>Pg. 1261 - Telegram to Hitler
https://www.amazon.com/Metternich-Strategist-Visionary-Wolfram-Siemann/dp/067474392X
https://www.amazon.com/Congress-Vienna-its-Legacy-International/dp/1780761163
I would recommend these books then!
Certainly he was the main reason for the founding of the German Empire in the way that it was founded. But personally I think the consequences for Europe as a whole were not worth it haha. Still, I can respect your opinion :)
Someone put a reading list together, so I'd recommend taking a look at it. From the books on there that I've read, I think it's a pretty good list. Can't speak on the ones I haven't read though.
My first recommendation is almost always Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. It's more Libertarian than anything, but I think you'll still get a lot out of it as an absolutist.
There's always the classics, De Monarchia by Dante*, De Regno* by Aquinas*, Patriarcha* by Filmer, Leviathan by Hobbes.
Most of my other recommendations would be general history/philosophy books. Honestly, that's been most of my reading, and most of those aren't actively trying to make a case for monarchy as much as just looking at the facts. In case you're interested, I'd recommend Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Have a look through the titles, and see if there's something that catches your eye.
Funnily enough I'm reading Prince Philip's biography right now and I loved the part about Elizabeth's childhood - George VI referring to his family as "us four".
I concur with u/ProcrastinatorJames2 . Robert K. Massie's works are excellent. He has
- Peter the Great: His Life and World
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
The first 3 are definitely worth reading, though the fourth is completely different, and has some highly outdated info now. It concerns the bodies of the Romanov family, though the problem is that they've found new bodies since the book was published. So while it's not worthless, it's probably also not worth most people's time.
And while I haven't read this one yet, it looks to be a good biography of Paul I, who in my opinion is wrongly hated.
You mean something like this?
Writing revisionist, conspiracy theory garbage like this and being members of fanatical catholic organizations such as the TFP.
Haha, well you're not wrong about libertarians. I'm very much an individualist, so you're right on point.
Sowell's good. Though Hoppe is an AnCap, he argues that if you must have a state, one should prefer monarchies to republics. So if you're not an Anarchist, Hoppe is actually very good, as he writes in a very clear and analytical style. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn is another good one for libertarian monarchists, particularly in Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of our Times--where he argues that the goals of liberty and equality are at odds. It's less about economics than Hoppe, and touches on the ethos of the systems. And then there's a spate of articles about monarchy from the Mises Institute.
Finally, I haven't read anything else by the author, but if you're interested in something that's more broadly conservative than strictly libertarian, I'd highly recommend Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII by Plinio Correa de Oliveira. It's written from the perspective of a Catholic, primarily for Catholics, but I didn't have any trouble reading it as an Atheist.
> That is also for muslims.
Yes I know that Muslims genuinely believe in their faith. But if someone came to you and genuinely believed that 2+2 = 5 it doesn't matter how sincere the belief is, they're wrong.
> But so is Judaism and Islam then, since the Torah, the Bible and the Quran share the same events.
For old testaments you're right that Judaism and Christianity share events. The main event that I'm concerned with is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which, if true, shows that Christianity is the true religion as Jews believe that Jesus wasn't the messiah and Muslims believe that he didn't really die. So there are some crucial differences.
P.S. The case for Christ is a good book relating showing that historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection.
The White Rajahs were looked upon very favorably and outsiders would look at him as a humane ruler as Alfred Russel Wallace puts it:
"The Rajah “held Sarawak solely by the goodwill of the inhabitants. Rajah Brooke was a great, a wise, and a good ruler—a true and faithful friend—a man to be admired for his talents, respected for his honesty and courage, and loved for his genuine hospitality, his kindness of disposition, and his tenderness of heart.” He later would also praise his governance when it came to tribal issues.
I like to think that if the Japanese not cause such a disruption as they did , then the White Rajahs would've still been there.
An average/okay king too often wrongly considered to be a terrible one. While his reign was certainly weaker than Louis XIV's, it was not the absolute disaster that it is commonly portrayed as. Oliver Bernier's biography on him is the best one that I've read & recommend it to anything interested in Louis. Bernier's biography touches on how Louis was very well loved within during his reign & was not generally considered a bad king until long after his death (due largely to enlightenment & revolutionary propaganda).
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(It's on Portuguese no subtitles BTW)
The app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brasil215.tv&hl=en, which allows you to watch any Brazilian TV after you watch an AD video when tuning in the TV. I found out about that recently, I don't know if it's legal.
After learning just what a "McMansion" I wanted to hear more about this stuff. Ordered a book off amazon called "the old way of seeing".
Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages by Fritz Kern
From Amazon > Originally published: New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1956. xxxi, 214 pp. First published in 1914, this is one of the most important studies of early constitutional law. Kern [1884-1950] observes that discussions of the state in the ninth, eleventh and thirteenth centuries invariably asked whose rights were paramount Were they those of the ruler or the people? Kern locates the origins of this debate, which has continued to the twentieth century, in church doctrine and the history of the early German states. He demonstrates that the interaction of these two sets of influences in conflict and alliance prepared the ground for a new outlook in the relations between the ruler and the ruled, and laid the foundations both of absolutist and of constitutional theory (4).
A libertarian perspective on Monarchy
On a note, authoritarian =/= totalitarian.
We have literally more totalitarian government in the US today by epic proportions compared to the colonial revolt. From the USSR to Nazi Germany to China and North Korea, basically the entire continents of Africa and South America, Iran, And every EU nation a libertarian would despise, democracy has been tje single most totalitarian force the world has ever seen, aka, the least libertarian.
Well it works both ways, do you know how many commies stop by to gloat about the "righteous" murder of children like of the Tsar? And literally advocate killing us Stalin style?
And you suggest squashing us out of fear we will someday squash you. Which still makes you a squasher.
And IF you are the logical end of tje ideology, then isn't it right by your same logic that you be squashed?
Also, you should really look into the difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism. I'd invite you from a libertarian type standpoint to view:
This book I believe free online copies can be found.
Authority is a teacher. Totality is no teacher and a class run by the bully who takes your lunch money and gives wedgies. Under the teacher, you actually have far more liberty than you do under the bully and his henchmen.
> i am one of the dont tread on me guys.
Well technically a truly limited republic will be better for this than a Constitutional Monarchy, but as a general rule, more democracy = less liberty.
The USSR had universal Suffrage before the USA. Prior to the parliment system, most Monarchies in history were far more free than we are, and really the issues with the rebellion had much ado about parliment than the King, or the King in a parlimentary system.
But if you want the don't tread on me angle, here is the best way to learn:
This book, is from a libertarian perspective for Monarchy and one that I as a "Don't Tread on Me American" found quite good in my Monarchism formation.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Emperor-Edward-Behr/dp/0553344749 lol, no it’s fucking not.
I mean, there is a movie called the Last Emperor and yes it’s based on the book but this is my source, not the movie
While this recommendation is a bit tangential, try reading Romance of the Rose. This book was considered the cannon of chivalry during the Medieval era, influencing the worldview of all levels of nobility. A lengthy account of the historical importance of Romance of the Rose can be found in Johan Huizinga's "Waining of the Middle Ages".