Absolute Monarchism

Absolute Monarchism (Abmon) or Absolutism is a form of government in which a single monarch has absolute rule over the state and is not bound by any formal rules, often being seen as owning the countries they reside over.

Such rule is often justified through religious means.

Antiquity
Absolute Monarchy in Antiquity where monarchs managed to garner extreme amounts of power over their kingdoms. Sometimes even garnering a god-like status, like happened in Ancient Egypt.

Medieval Period
While most Monarchies in Europe were limited by the feudal system, some monarchs have managed to garner enough power to rule in an absolute or semi-absolute manner. Some of these examples have often failed due to   Certain Republican Revolutions. Although most have managed to end without Revolutions.

China also experienced periods of Absolute Monarchies, which usually decayed into more Bureaucratic forms of government, which caused them to lose the mandate of heaven and be overthrown, cycle repeats.

Modern Day
Currently there are a couple absolute monarchies, those being: Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Eswatini, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, Vatican City and the State of Qatar.

Some monarchies lost the title of "absolute" relatively recently, those being: The Kingdom of Bhutan, The Kingdom of Nepal (now a republic) and The Kingdom of Tonga.

There are also some Non-Ceremonial Constitutional Monarchies that get lumped in to the category of "absolute monarchies" by left-wing journalists, example being the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Some powerful dictatorships are put into the category of "Absolute Monarchies", notably the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, although both followers of such dictatorships' ideologies and followers of absolute monarchism disagree with this assessment.

God-Given Right to Rule
Some absolute Monarchies are lay their claim to power on Religion, making some absolute monarchies theocratic or establishmentarian in nature. This concept is called "The Divine Right of Kings" in Europe and "The Mandate of Heaven" in China, although there are some differences in Theology and in practice.

This does not have to be the case and there can be a secular absolute monarchy.

Supremacy as a requirement to order
One of the main secular argument for Absolute Monarchy is that for a society to have order and security, it must have power that stems from one absolute body and that body should be the monarch.

How to Draw
Absmon_flag.svgThe symbol for Absolute Monarchism is a combination of the colour purple, which is a colour commonly associated with monarchism as well as a black V-shaped pattern which in the polcompball community is used to represent authoritarianism.


 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes.
 * 2) Draw a "V" shape in black.
 * 3) Fill the inside part of the ball purple, and the outside black.
 * 4) Add a crown.

And you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Monarch.png]] Monarchism - We're basically the same thing.
 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - Love ya dad.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Conmon.png]] Constitutional Monarchism - You kinda fucked up monarchism, but you still are my brother.

Enemies

 * [[File:Jack.png]] Jacobinism - Louis was great! You were a mistake!
 * [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] Republicanism - I wish you never existed.
 * [[File:Orthlen.png]] Leninism - You were a failure from the start, you just prolonged your death.
 * [[File:Juche.png]] Juche - I AM NOT YOU, WE ARE NOT THE SAME, WE ARE DIFFERENT.

Literature

 * Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings by Sir Robert Filmer
 * The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
 * The Age Of Absolutism 1660-1815 by Max Beloff
 * Absolutism and its discontents : state and society in seventeenth century France and England by Micheal S. Kimmel

Wikipedia

 * Absolute Monarchy
 * Patriarchalism
 * Divine Right of Kings
 * Mandate of Heaven
 * Tsarist Autocracy
 * Absolute Monarchy in France
 * Politics of Saudi Arabia

Video

 * Absolute Monarchy: Crash Course European History #13 by Crash Course

Online Communities

 * r/absolute_monarchism