You're rarely see this shit with absolute monarchs, that's the thing.

Why is that?

in which case, I'm not really, I've studied China but have kinda glossed over the CCP history

if peterson hates communism so much why did he name his daughter after gorbuchev

Maybe because Monarchs ruled over more decentralised, fuedal societies?

because Gorbachev ended the USSR maybe?

but JBP was actually a Socialist back in the day

a Progressive

Mikhaila is 27, so she was born in 1992.

Communism fell in 1989

the NDP in Canada

New Democratic Party

She was named after Gorby

guaranteed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

Mao was really smart

@fuguer Fell in 1991, but by 1990, the USSR were already planning a transition to a market economy.

absolute monarchs didn't rule over more decentralized feudal societies

but being a super genius only takes you so far

there is a distinction between an absolute and a feudal monarch

despite claims, Hitler was actually very laissez faire

yeah i think the late 80s was the berlin wall and the start of the fall

it was obviously on its way out

i was in middle school then

he had an entire government apparatus which he allowed to function

You knows what I mean.

that's why we have the term 'Absolute Monarch' to distinguish

Goebbels, Goering etc

they were all in charge in their respective areas

I thought absolute monarch was opposed to a constitutional monarch.

yes

both come out of the feudal system

the aristocracy naturally lost power

@Blake4014 Tomorrow belongs to all of us my king

in a constitutional system, that power vacuum was filled by merchant power

Okay, so why didn't shit like this happen under absolute monarchy? Why do Communist dictators run things into the ground, while monarchical dynasties last for centuries?

in an absolute system, the power vacuum was filled by the Monarch himself

who no longer needed the feudal system

or its constraints

arguably it might have happened