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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
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile..."
Key Notes
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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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"he prevents uh presents himself i think it's just the fact that uh he's so unpredictable the fact that like every single day he's..."
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"to liberate america from the deep state who've been in power since the 1963 assassination of jfk he needs this war to um basically..."
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"...choice for the people is not one between between democracy and monarchy, it's really one between monarchy and oligarchy. And given this choice, historically,..."
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"And that's that's a very common way for kings to cement proper support. So I imagine if Donald Trump were to become king and..."
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"...enemies of capitalism are different ideologies, okay? So these ideologies include monarchy. The idea of monarchy"
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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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"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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"...specifically aristotle um believe that um the dynamic between um oligarchy monarchy democracy um i mean it's just a process so what happens is..."
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"almost as though people are crying for a monarch, to relieve them of debt, to relieve them of corruption, to provide leadership in this..."
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"the only check on me is my own morality he did say that he did say that so no it it definitely"
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