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He treats the general will as the sovereign and says the French Revolution threatened monarchies because it made the people, rather than the monarch, the highest authority.
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Monarchy
He says capitalism's real enemies are monarchy, theocracy, nationalism, and democracy rather than communism.
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He says capitalism's real enemies are monarchy, theocracy, nationalism, and democracy rather than communism.
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He defines monarchy as dangerous to capital because kings can cancel debts and redistribute land, making capital subordinate to royal authority.
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Jiang argues that monarchy cannot secure bourgeois property rights because a king can be overthrown, whereas the nation-state is harder to overthrow and has both the resources and desire for imperialism.
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The nation-state replaces monarchy by shifting ultimate authority from bureaucracy to people or culture, elite status from aristocracy to bourgeoisie, and political temperament from conservative alliance maintenance to expansionary standardization.
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After 1848, monarchs begin embracing nationalism as a way to contain social change they can no longer hold back.
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Royal power in Britain is flexible because the constitution is traditional and unwritten; actual power depends on personality, charisma, alliances, longevity, and political circumstance.
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Spanish imperial wealth financed broad dynastic wars and borrowing until even the era's wealthiest empire went bankrupt by the end of the 16th century.
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"you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile..."
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"...the general will, the people, are the sovereign. But in a monarchy, the monarch is what's sovereign. So the sovereign must... So it's a..."
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"...enemies of capitalism are different ideologies, okay? So these ideologies include monarchy. The idea of monarchy"
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"So theocracy is also a major enemy of capitalism. Then you also have nationalism. Okay? So nationalism is the idea of loyalty to your..."
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"is that rather than power in the hands of the capitalist, power is in the hand of the king, okay? And what a king..."
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"...the problem is this. The problem is, the system of the monarchy cannot really ensure property rights. And the reason why is, the king..."
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"to remember and emphasize the first is for the monarchy the bureaucracy is ultimate authority why because the bureaucracy is what represents the monarch..."
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"But the nation state... Because it is almost like a new religion. It wants standardization and systematization. It wants everyone to buy into the..."
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"...contained in Europe because nationalism was actually a threat to the monarchy. Because nationalism would reduce a lot of their powers. But in 1848,..."
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"But hey, go to, I don't know, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. They're not very tolerant people, okay? And you can make the argument that they..."
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"To be flexible and to be pertinent to the present. Okay? And so the English are extremely proud of their constitution. Does that make..."
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"...being wasted on these religious festivals. And the third thing is monarchy. So they have a king, and this king also happens to be,..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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