Monarcho-Socialism

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Monarcho-Socialism, often shortened to MonSoc, is an authoritarian left culturally variable ideology that believes that the Monarch's role is inherently a public one due to the Monarch having a parental obligation to his state. This can take many form's from File:Abmon.png absolute monarchism to a File:Conmon.png constitutional monarchy where the king as the leader of the revolution in most cases, instead preferring to have the monarch as the constitutional head of state while the socialist government does the politicking.

History

Paleoegyptianism

In a Paleoegyptianist society, the ultimate ruler is the current Pharaoh. The Pharaoh is seen as the god-on-earth, which makes this society an absolute monarchy. The economy is centrally organized and strictly controlled, with the majority of cultivated land being owned by the king, with the rest being owned by wealthy land owners and tempals. All property was coordinated by the state, in a way that some have compared to  State Socialism. The workers are paid with grain, which in this society, can be used as currency, and taxes are paid by the head of household.

Despite the Paleoegyptianist society being very stratified, all people are equal under the law. Although it contains slaves, they can work themselves out of slavery. Some citizen, enjoy free healthcare. There's also an amazing level of gender equality for the time, although women generally end up less educated than men. On the other hand, there are all levels of punishment for criminals, usually corporal punishment and fines, but sometimes up to death. Prison sentences are rare, as feeding a prisoner in a cell without their labor is seen as unproductive.

File:OrientalDespotism.png Oriental Despotism/Asiatism

Oriental Despotism, also sometimes termed Asiatism, is a conceptual framework in political and social theory describing the concentration of absolute authority in agrarian-based, centralized societies, historically prevalent in various Asian civilizations. The term was popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries by European theorists such as Montesquieu, Hegel, and Karl August Wittfogel, who sought to contrast Western models of governance with those of Asia, particularly China and India, though its use has been contested in modern scholarship. Oriental Despotism emphasizes the relationship between state power, economic organization, social hierarchy, and environmental and technological constraints.

Historical Foundations

The core observation behind Oriental Despotism is that societies reliant on intensive agriculture and large-scale irrigation systems tend to develop centralized authority. Wittfogel’s hydraulic hypothesis posits that the logistical demands of File:Bath.pnghydraulic agriculture—managing river valleys, dikes, canals, and seasonal flooding—necessitated a bureaucracy capable of mobilizing labor on a massive scale. In such contexts, rulers held near-absolute control over populations, managing water distribution, agricultural productivity, and public works. The state assumed a quasi-sacred authority, linking administrative function to ideological legitimacy, often combining religious, secular, and military roles in the office of the ruler.

Historical examples include Imperial China, particularly under dynasties such as the Qin, Han, and later Ming, where bureaucratic meritocracy managed vast networks of canals and granaries, effectively creating a File:PlannedMarkSoc.pngstate-directed agrarian economy. Similarly, Mesopotamian city-states relied on File:PalaceEconomy2.pngtemple economies where priest-kings oversaw the storage, redistribution, and production of resources, establishing early forms of File:PlannedMarkSoc.pngstate socialism and File:GE.pnggift economies. In both cases, centralization was not merely administrative but also symbolic: the ruler embodied the continuity and order of the society, a feature resembling File:Abmon.pngabsolute monarchism.

File:Unitary.pngPolitical and Administrative Structures

Oriental Despotism is characterized by a set of structural features that differentiate it from decentralized or feudal societies. File:Unitary.pngCentralism dominates all levels of governance, with local authorities subordinated to a highly hierarchical state apparatus. Bureaucracies are often staffed through a combination of hereditary elites and merit-based selection, as seen in the Chinese imperial examination system, which blended bureaucratic aristocracy and meritocratic ideals. The integration of military, civil, and religious authority allows the ruler to exercise both coercive and ideological control.

The military component often takes the form of File:BarrCom.pngbarracks communism or standing professional armies that maintain internal order and project state power outward. This arrangement reinforces File:Socauth.pngsocial authoritarianism, as the state exerts pervasive control over production, social norms, and mobility. An Example is the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, where military conquest and administrative integration enforced obedience while allowing local governance under Mongol supervision.

Economic Organization

The economic system under Oriental Despotism often integrates File:AgroIndustrysoc.pngagro-industrialism with state socialism, whereby the state directly manages agricultural production, industrial output, and resource allocation. This includes the implementation of planned agriculture, coordinated labor conscription, and tributary systems that extract surplus from local populations to sustain centralized governance. The economy operates as a gift economy in the sense that production and redistribution are managed top-down rather than through market mechanisms, though some barterism persists locally.

Agrarian cooperatives, granaries, and temple-managed lands form the backbone of production. In China, the granary system under the Han dynasty redistributed surplus during famines, exemplifying File:SocialistCorporatism.pngsocialist corporatism, while in India, temple economies functioned similarly, funding civic projects and religious infrastructure. These systems demonstrate an early form of File:PlannedMarkSoc.pngstate-directed market socialism, where the market exists but remains subordinated to state priorities.

Social Hierarchy and Ideology

Social hierarchies in Oriental Despotism are structured both vertically and functionally. At the apex is the ruler, often regarded as semi-divine, reflecting the File:Theocraticsoc.pngtheocratic socialism dimension of the system. Religious authority is intertwined with governance: rulers claim moral legitimacy from divine or cosmological principles, as in Confucian China, where the emperor was the “Son of Heaven.” Social stratification extends to officials, military leaders, landowners, and peasants, creating agrarian socialism with elite management.

This arrangement produces a combination of traditionalism and technocratic governance. Religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions, such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Vedic principles, serve to justify and stabilize authority, while bureaucracies implement practical administration. File:Esosoc.pngEsoteric socialism arises in some interpretations, emphasizing the hidden networks of control and ritualized social obligations that enforce compliance without coercion alone.

File:BarrCom.pngLegal and Military Mechanisms

Legalism in Chinese governance exemplifies the coercive underpinning of Oriental Despotism. Strict codified laws, severe punishments, and administrative oversight ensure social compliance, particularly in agrarian management. Militarily, the system relies on permanent armies capable of suppressing internal dissent and projecting power externally, reinforcing File:CollectiveLeadership.pngoligarchy by centralizing control among a small elite. The hydraulic despotism model illustrates how environmental factors—such as control over rivers and irrigation—necessitate centralized coordination and enforcement.

Military obligations are often embedded into social and economic structures. Corvée labor, conscription, and feudal obligations integrate state-directed market socialism and socialist corporatism, aligning individual labor output with state objectives. In Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, rulers maintained standing armies to enforce taxation, protect irrigation works, and ensure political compliance, a model that reflects both centralized authority and militarized social organization.

File:Theocraticsoc.pngReligious and Cultural Dimensions

Religion and ideology reinforce the power of the ruler. In Oriental Despotism, the state often enforces a theocratic socialism, where religious authority legitimizes centralized control. Temples and ritual institutions manage land, oversee production, and enforce social norms, acting as both economic and cultural regulators.

Cultural nationalism and ideological conformity further stabilize authority. By linking governance to cultural and moral frameworks, rulers maintain File:Tradsoc.pngtraditionalism while implementing progressive economic or technological reforms as needed. In Confucian China, state ideology promoted agricultural labor, filial piety, and meritocratic officialdom, aligning moral, cultural, and economic objectives with state authority.

Legacy and Scholarly Interpretation

Scholars such as Wittfogel, Karl Marx (in early notes on Asia), and Max Weber have debated the relevance and accuracy of Oriental Despotism as a framework. Critics argue that European observers exaggerated centralization and ignored local variation, while proponents contend that the combination of centralized bureaucracy, agricultural control, and social hierarchy remains a useful analytical tool for understanding state formation in Asia.

The concept remains influential in comparative political science, especially in discussions of state capacity, authoritarianism, and the relationship between technology and governance. Hydraulic, agrarian, and temple-based systems illustrate how environmental and economic factors shape political authority, linking agro-industrialism and state socialism with absolute and centralized forms of government.

Conclusion

Oriental Despotism/Asiatism represents a historically grounded model of governance where economic, military, and ideological imperatives converge to produce centralized, socially stratified states. It combines agrarian socialism, agro-industrial planning, and social authoritarianism under absolute monarchism or centralized authority. Rulers maintain power through religious and cultural legitimization, military oversight, and bureaucratic management, creating societies in which the state directs production, enforces social hierarchy, and manages large populations effectively. This model demonstrates the intersection of geography, economy, and ideology in shaping durable political structures and offers insights into the evolution of authoritarian governance in both historical and contemporary contexts.

File:WangMang.png Wang Mang Thought

Wang Mang (Chinese: 王莽) (45 BCE[1] – 6 October 23 CE[2]), courtesy name Jujun (Chinese: 巨君; pinyin: Jùjūn), officially known as the Shijianguo Emperor (始建國天帝), was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty. He was originally an official and consort kin of the Han dynasty and later seized the throne in 9 CE. The Han dynasty was restored after his overthrow, and his rule marked the separation between the Western Han dynasty (before Xin) and Eastern Han dynasty (after Xin). Traditional Chinese historiography viewed Wang as a tyrant and usurper, while more recently, some historians have portrayed him as a visionary and selfless social reformer. During his reign, he File:Abolitionism.pngabolished slavery and initiated a File:LandReform.pngland redistribution program. Though a learned Confucian scholar who sought to implement the harmonious society he saw in the classics, his efforts ended in chaos.

File:WatTyler.pngTylerism

Wat Tylerism was a radical current within late medieval English politics, rooted in the explosive grievances of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt. Drawing from File:Farmpop.pngagrarian populism and File:Local.pnglocalist traditions, it emerged as a movement of the rural commons against the entrenched hierarchies of feudalism and state-sanctioned corruption. File:Antitax.pngAnti-taxation and File:Abolitionism.pnganti-serfdom sentiments formed its immediate rallying cries, but beneath them lay deeper File:Equality.pngegalitarian and File:Community.pngcommunitarian ideals that challenged the moral legitimacy of lordship and clerical privilege. The influence of File:Lollardy.pngLollardy—an early proto-Protestant reformist theology—infused the movement with a distinctly File:CapAnti Clerical.png anti-clerical edge, rejecting the wealth and worldliness of the Church while advocating vernacular scripture and lay piety. Tyler’s platform combined File:CommunismePrimitif.pngproto-communist calls for common ownership with a belief in File:Monsoc.pngmonarcho-socialism: a vision where a sovereign ruler could act as custodian of the people's welfare against the parasitic nobility. Rejecting File:Anti-Prostitution.pngprostitution, File:Antifeud.pngfeudal rent-seeking, and legal inequality, the movement foreshadowed later class-conscious uprisings. Its flirtation with File:Tankie.pngstratocracy rule by those who bore arms in defense of the people marked a rejection of aristocratic monopoly over violence.

File:Brusilov.png Brusilovism/Red Tsarism

Aleksei[a] Alekseyevich Brusilov was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for developing new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov offensive, which was his most outstanding achievement.

Born into an aristocratic military family, Brusilov trained as a File:Tankie.pngcavalry officer but, by 1914, had realized that cavalry was obsolete in an offensive capacity against modern weapons of warfare such as the mass adoption of rifled guns, machine guns, and artillery. He is an outstanding general who won many battles against the Austro-Hungarian army. His offensive in 1916 was the final major success of the File:Tsar2.pngTsarist army. In the government, this offensive meant the transfer of the strategic initiative to the Russians and the beginning of preparations for the general offensive of 1917, which was disrupted by the revolution.

Because some of his former soldiers were serving in the newly formed Red Army, Brusilov concurred that radical change was necessary. Brusilov saw cooperation with the File:Lenin.pngSoviet state as a way to hold the territory of the former Russian Empire together in the interests of the Russian nation. Privately, he expressed the File:Mach.pnghope that the communist system would pass and be replaced by a Russian nation-state. He accused exiled White emigrants and the White movement overall of putting their class interests above the interests of the Russian nation.

On 30 May 1920, during the Polish Eastern offensive of the Polish-Soviet War, he published in Pravda an appeal entitled "To All Former Officers, Wherever They Might Be," encouraging anti-Bolshevik Russians to forgive past grievances and join the Red Army. Brusilov considered it a patriotic duty for all Russian officers to join hands with the Bolshevik government, which in his opinion was defending File:LeftNatcon.pngRussia against foreign invaders. On 12 September 1920, Mikhail Kalinin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Sergey Kamenev and Brusilov signed an appeal, "To all officers of the army of Baron Wrangel," in which they called on White Army officers to go over to the side of the Russian Soviet Republic. In the document, they accused Wrangel of acting in the interests of the Polish nobility and the Anglo-French capitalists, who they believed had used the Wrangel army to enslave the Russian people (as had happened with the Czechoslovak corps and the "black-skinned divisions").

Initially, Brusilov served on a special commission to determine the size and structure of the Red Army. Later, he led cavalry recruit training and became Inspector of Cavalry. He retired in 1924 but continued to carry out commissions for the Revolutionary Military Council.

Mladdorossi

Another arguably Monarcho-Socialist movement is the File:Mladorossi.png Mladorossism, although a lot of modern-day Monarcho-Socialists see that as more NazBol than MonSoc, which advocated for a Russian Monarchy under a soviet style system, under their motto "The Tsar and the Soviets!". Although there is some evidence that Mladorossi might just have been a Soviet puppet party to catch dissenters. After this rumor came out, the group disbanded fast.

File:Kita.png Kitaism

Kitaism, also known as Pure Socialism, is an ideology that emerged from the Japanese author and political philosopher Ikki Kita, known as "the Father of Japanese Fascism". The brand of socialism Kita preached had nothing in common with File:Ormarxf.png Marxist socialism, as he saw Marxism and working class-oriented socialism as outdated and instead relied on File:Platon.png Platonism and File:Darwin.png evolutionary theory owing to Social Darwinism. Kita envisioned a military coup d'état to usher in a File:Totmon.png totalitarian regime based on direct rule by the Emperor, who would suspend the Constitution and purge the Diet of "malign influence" (read: File:AntiLibIcon.png liberal and File:Antiwest.png Western influences). The new "National Reorganization Diet" would File:Statesoc.png nationalize industries, impose limits on individual wealth and private property, enact File:LandReform.png land reforms to benefit farmers and thus strengthen File:Cball-Japan.png Japan to enable it to File:PanAsian.png free Asia from Western imperialism. This blend of philosophies led Kita to support File:JapImp.png Japanese expansion into Korea and Manchuria, as well as to call for an alliance with File:Cball-France.png France and war against the File:Cball-USSR.png Soviet Union and File:BritishEmpire.png Britain, whom he dubbed "landlord nations", with Japan a "proletarian nation."

Although fellow ultranationalists such as Hozumi Yatsuka subscribed to an File:Ary.png Aryan-like Yamato myth that Japan was an ethnically homogeneous "family state" and that the Japanese descended through the Imperial line from the goddess Amaterasu Omikami, Kita rejected it, emphasizing the presence of non-Japanese in Japan since ancient times. He held progressive views on File:Race.png race, and argued that along with File:Intercult.png incorporating Chinese, Koreans, and Russians as Japanese citizens during the Meiji period, any person should be able to naturalize as a citizen of the empire irrespective of race and ethnicity, with the same rights and obligations as ethnic Japanese. According to Kita, the Japanese Empire couldn't otherwise expand into areas populated by non-Japanese people without having to "exempt them from their obligations or ... expel them from the empire." One of his religious inspirations for this view was the Japanized Lotus Sutra.

Kita's passionate support for File:Equality.png equality came from the belief that Japan's classism could not end without resolving international distribution issues. In his eyes, Japan held the role of the champion of File:PanAsian.png pan-asianism demanded support for Indian independence and ending China's partition by Western powers. Thus, even while advocating Japan partitioning China by taking over Manchuria, Kita supported File:JapImp.png Japanese imperialist expansion "in the name of justice" and as a tool for Asian Liberation.

Other aspects of Kita's ideology would be utopian socialism, high authoritarianism, encouragement of Buddhism, Japanese conquest of the entire world, official use of Esperanto, and some anarchist aspects. His ideas were a significant influence on the state ideology of File:Showa.png Showa Statism in Imperial Japan, aswell as on File:Juche.png Juche in File:Cball-North Korea.png North Korea and File:Panc.png Pancasila in File:Cball-Indonesia.png Indonesia.

Spengler

Main Article: File:PrusSoc.png Spenglerism

File:Norodom.png Sihanoukism

Sihanouk was the Cambodian King from 1993-2004 and he implemented some of the first modern-day monarch socialist policies. In April 1955, before leaving for a summit with Asian and African states in Bandung, Indonesia, Sihanouk announced the formation of his political party, the Sangkum, and expressed interest in participating in the general elections slated to be held in September 1955. While the Sangkum was, in effect, a political party, Sihanouk argued that the Sangkum should be seen as a political "organization", and explained that he could accommodate people with differing political orientations on the sole condition that they pledged fealty to the monarchy.

Once in office, Sihanouk introduced several constitutional changes, including extending suffrage to women, adopting Khmer as the sole official language of the country, and making Cambodia a constitutional monarchy by vesting policy-making powers in the prime minister rather than the king. He viewed socialism as an ideal concept for establishing social equality and fostering national cohesion within newly independent Cambodia. In March 1956, he embarked on a national program of "Buddhist socialism", promoting socialist principles on the one hand while maintaining the kingdom's Buddhist culture on the other.

Euskadi

The first movement that can be almost universally seen as Monarcho-Socialist is the File:Euskadi Carlism.png Euskadi Carlism which resulted in the Carlist Party becoming more and more socialist in the image of Tito. While the Carlists are still considered a positive thing by most modern-day Monarcho-Socialists, some conservative elements may still be seen as controversial.

Grenada

Despite the memes, the Grenadan File:New Jewel.png New Jewel Movement did not explicitly advocate for a socialist monarchy. They only kept the monarchy out of pragmatism.

Beliefs

Monarcho-socialism is a political ideology that combines the hierarchical structure and continuity of monarchy with socialist economic and social principles. Its adherents argue that centralized monarchical authority can coexist with, or even facilitate, the equitable distribution of resources and social welfare, countering the inequalities they associate with both unrestrained capitalism and liberal democratic systems.

Proponents maintain that a monarch provides a stable and apolitical focal point of national identity, capable of enforcing social cohesion and ensuring long-term planning in economic and social policy. They argue that hereditary or traditional authority can act as a safeguard against the volatility of democratic politics, preventing short-term interests from undermining the collective welfare of society.

Economically, monarcho-socialists advocate for strong state involvement in industry, land ownership, and resource management, asserting that a centralized authority is uniquely positioned to oversee redistributive policies without the fragmentation or corruption they associate with parliamentary systems. Public ownership, regulated markets, and social programs are justified as means to maintain societal harmony and prevent class conflict, while still recognizing the natural hierarchy that a monarchy embodies.

Culturally, the ideology often intertwines national tradition and historical continuity with progressive social reform. Supporters contend that aligning socialist reforms with a unifying monarchical framework preserves societal values and traditions, while implementing measures that improve living standards, worker rights, and access to education and healthcare. This synthesis is defended as a practical response to what monarcho-socialists view as the failures of liberal democracy and the atomization of society under modern capitalism.

Philosophically, monarcho-socialism frames its approach as a balance between authority and social justice, arguing that true equality requires a moral and centralized arbiter to guide economic and social policy. By situating the monarch as both a symbolic and functional guarantor of societal welfare, the ideology seeks to reconcile hierarchy with solidarity, authority with fairness, and national identity with social equity.

Variants

File:Monarcho-Juche.png Monarcho-Juche

Monarcho-Juche refers to an interpretation of North Korea’s state ideology in which the principles of Juche are understood as functioning de facto as a File:Monarch.pngmonarchist system. While Juche officially presents itself as a self-reliant republican socialist ideology emphasizing popular sovereignty and national independence, historical and structural developments under Kim Il-sung established mechanisms that resemble hereditary monarchy. From the early years of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Il-sung observed political revisionism in both the Soviet Union and China and sought to avoid similar challenges to his authority. By consolidating power, controlling succession, and establishing the centrality of his personality, Kim created a system where leadership passed predictably within the Kim family, effectively embedding hereditary succession into the state’s structure.

Under Monarcho-Juche, File:Totmon.pngabsolute authority is concentrated in the figure of the leader, whose status is elevated through extensive propaganda and ideological justification. Kim Il-sung was presented not only as a political leader but as a near-divine figure, embedding a quasi-religious sanctity to the office that parallels historical monarchies. This framework extends to his successors, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un, ensuring continuity through familial lineage. The hereditary principle is formalized socially, politically, and culturally, making the system functionally monarchist despite its socialist veneer.

The Monarcho-Juche position also observes that the ideological content of Juche—emphasizing national self-reliance, ideological purity, and centralized leadership—facilitates the entrenchment of this dynastic rule. By framing the Kim family as the essential guarantors of independence and national destiny, any deviation from the hereditary line is implicitly delegitimized. Thus, the monarchy is ideologically justified through Juche: the leader is portrayed as the embodiment of the nation, merging personal authority with national sovereignty.

In this sense, Monarcho-Juche is both an analytical observation and a political categorization: it identifies North Korea as a system where socialist rhetoric overlays the practical structures of a dynastic monarchy. The fusion of absolute monarchism with Juche ideology demonstrates how revolutionary socialism can be adapted to support hereditary succession, centralized control, and dynastic divinity, creating a unique hybrid of monarchy and socialist ideology.

Stylistic Notes

MonSoc is portrayed to some degree as a stereotypical king or another member of royalty, however, he is known to take a paternal role in regard to his people and vehemently defends their right to be protected from the oppressive nature of capitalism, often through his government.

MonSoc often claims he has "the divine right to destroy the bourgeoisie" in response to those who challenge his actions or views. Upon being asked about his stance on the Russian Civil War, MonSoc has claimed to have funded both sides, remarking that "both Lenin and the Tsar were based".

How to Draw

Based on this flag by u/r0bbins

File:Moncom flag.svg

Flag of Monarcho-Socialism

1. Draw a circle.
2. Colour the inside of the circle red.
3. Make two yellow lines and color the inside purple.
4. Draw a yellow crown inside the purple area.
5. Draw a red star with a red inside.
6. Add trims to the yellow line, similar to a Fleur de Lis.
7. Add a crown on top (Gold for the crown, and red for the jewels),
8. Add the eyes and you are done.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#CD2A21	rgb(205, 42, 33)
	Yellow	#FED216	rgb(254, 210, 22)
	Purple	#832D84	rgb(131, 45, 132)
	Gold	#FEE400	rgb(254, 228, 0)
	Red	#FF0000	rgb(255, 0, 0)

Relationships

Loyalist Comrades

• File:Conmon.png Constitutional Monarchism - You're cool. With you, I can have both a monarch and a revolutionary leader.
• Socialism - It is the worker's right to be freed from the chains of capital.
• File:Monarch.png Monarchism - Long live the king! But you need to see the benefits of socialism.
• File:Monsynd.png Monarcho-Syndicalism - Based sister!
• File:Euskadi Carlism.png Euskadi Carlism - Carlos Hugo did nothing wrong!
• File:Christsoc.png Christian Socialism - The Münster Rebellion was very epic. Hong Xiuquan was based too.
• File:Gaddafi.png Gaddafism - Hell yeah! The way you crowned yourself as King of Kings was based! Despite the fact you literally overthrew the Libyan Monarchy.
• File:ClementAttlee.png Atleeism - Best British prime minister ever. The Sun will never set on the British Social Empire.
• File:JapCom.png Japanese Communism - Thanks for supporting the monarchy even if it’s just simple pragmatism.
• File:Corbynism-ball.png Corbynism - Same as above, shame you were ousted by your own party after losing the 2019 election.
• File:MoveForward.png Move Forward Party - And again.
• File:PagTheo.png Pagan Theocracy - The Inca Empire, Heliopolitae, and to a lesser extent ancient Egypt, are all great examples of me in practice.
• File:Mladorossi.png Mladorossism - The Tsar and the Soviets indeed! ONE STRUGGLE. Why simp for Mussolini?

Frenemies

• Anarcho-Monarchism - You confuse me, brother.
• File:Moncap.png Monarcho-Capitalism - You're right half of the time (and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had some based ideas, as well as the music).
• File:Reactsoc.png Reactionary Socialism - You have the right idea even if sometimes you behave more like File:Mondistli.png him than me.
• File:Puyi.png Pu Yi Thought - I’m really glad Mao was able to convert you into a socialist. What do you mean Manchruria had collective farming?!
• File:Cball-FrenchSecondRepublic.png Neo-Bonapartism - Napoleon III identified himself as a Socialist! But was he really, though?
• File:Bism.png Bismarckism - You're sooo close! Just drop the Anti-Socialism, please!
• File:Long.png Longism - About as good as you can get within the republican system. You are just like above though just also a fake king.
• File:Nordmodel.png Nordic Model - You aren't even a socialist, but you did a decent job in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Just don't give in to File:Hoyre.png those bourgeois File:DenmarkDKF.png, all right?.. Oh wait, File:National Coalition Finland.png Finland and Sweden File:ModPartyicon.png already did. Shame.
• File:Consocf.png Conservative Socialism - Sometimes we get into disagreements about social views and government systems but you like both socialism and traditional institutions and I can respect you for that.
• File:PSOE.png PSOE - Too moderate and sympathetic to capitalism. But I still like what you did after File:Franco-alt.png that old geezer kicked the bucket.
• File:UKLab.png British Labourism - Same as above, Attlee was a G I G A C H A D.
• File:Austrmarx.png Austromarxism - Pretty nice, but would've been even better if you supported the restoration of monarchy with Erzsi as the queen.
• File:Patcon.png Paternalistic Conservatism - He is much more likely to support the monarchy than socdem, but has an even higher chance of opposing socialism.
• File:Juche.png Juche - We are different but a lot of people seem to think we're the same.
• File:Nazbol.png National Bolshevism - I don't know how to feel about you, but the Mladorossi were extremely based.
• File:Hoxha.png Hoxhaism - Why can't we just go back to being allies against the liberals?
• Marxism-Leninism - Republicanism? And you want to abolish the state in the end? Cringe. But the New Jewel Movement was based.
• File:Kemal.png Kemalism - You are a republican who abolished the caliphate and deposed the Sultan, which is cringe. But thanks a lot for your inspiration on the nation-building of File:AmanullahKhan.png Amanullah Khan and File:ZahirShah.png Mohammed Zahir Shah in Afghanistan, as well as File:RezaShah.png Reza Shah and File:Pahlavi.png Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran.
• File:Socauth.png Social Authoritarianism - Tends to be a republican, but Wang Anshi, Amanullah Khan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Reza Shah, and to some extent Rama IX were based.

Regiciding sellouts

• File:Banana Republicanism.png Banana Republicanism - Least exploitative Republic. Literally my polar opposite!
• Anarcho-Communism - Naive utopian who believes I'm just as bad as the capitalists because I'm a king.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - You are the embodiment of everything I hate. You believe Monarch hierarchy is unjust but believe the exploitation of the working class by rich capitalist scum is fully just. Filthy Anarchist and Capitalist scum!
• File:Clib.png Classical Liberalism - Your worship of laissez-faire economies and occasional republicanism disgust me.
• File:AmericanModel 1.png American Model - The American Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the working class. Also, I will never forgive you for deposing Mossadegh and corrupting Pahlavi, as well as for invading Grenada. Maybe, just maybe, you and the world would have been better off if that revolt failed and you stayed British? After all, File:Cball-Canada.png your northern neighbor - far from my ideal as he is - still outpaces you a little in the healthcare department...
• File:Obj.png Objectivism - The f*ck is this?
• Jacobinism - Bourgeois "revolutionary" and king-killer!
• File:Girondi.png Girondism - Even worse than the Jacobins due to being pro-capitalist.
• File:Orthlen.png Leninism - Why tf did you slaughter the entire family of the Tsar when you could have at least left them alive as a figurehead? No wonder you were rendered a pariah.
• File:Fash.png Fascism - The monarchists and the socialists fought side by side against your tyrannical Social Republic.
• File:Nazi.png Nazism - Xenophobic scumbag who opposed the monarchy and murdered a bunch of random people.
• File:DaoudKhan.png Daoudism - You're the reason Afghanistan turned into a mess and remains so for nearly half a century.
• File:KPNLF.png Lon Nolism - And you're the reason Cambodia turned into a mess.
• File:Polpot.png Pol Potism - Disgusting, I don't want to be your figurehead.
• File:OtoyaYamaguchi.png Yamaguchism - You killed Asanuma along with the Japanese socialist movement… and then you committed suicide.
• File:Khom.png Khomeinism - Monarch-hater who rejects socialism. Had Tudeh known you would backstab them, they would have sided with the Shah.
• File:Thatcher.png Thatcherism - Look, as a royal I am supposed to be polite with the ladies, but... YOU RUINED THE WORK OF ATTLEE AND HIS SUCCESSORS DAMMIT!

Further Information

Articles

• Inejiro Asanuma: Japan's Nationalist Martyr by Zero Schizo
• A King For The People?
• Ikki Kita: The Philosopher of Imperial Japan by Zoltanous and Nahobino

Literature

• A Constitution For the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain
• Ikki Kita Articles's in Japanese
• AN OUTLINE PLAN FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF JAPAN by KITA IKKI
• Political thought of Kita Ikki : the logical link between his critique of the national polity and his advocacy of war Osedo, Hiroshi
• Profile of Asian Minded Man –II- Ikki Kita

Videos

• Why I am a Monarcho Socialist
• What is Marxist-Monarchism? (Monarcho-Marxism)
• How Asian Empires were Socialist by Infrared
• Why did communist Grenada keep the Queen? by History Matters]
• Kita Ikki: The Father of Japanese Nationalism by The Minarchist
• Writers and Revolutionaries (entire)

Wikipedia

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Online Communities

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