Monarcho-Socialism

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Monarcho-Socialism
"Workers of the world, embrace monarchy!"
Basic Information
Aliases	Red Monarch Left-Monarchism Red Tsar Mob Monarchism Socialist Monarchism Social Monarchism (most, in practice) Monarcho-Communism (some) King Crimson Volkskönig (in Germany) Whatever Grenada was doing during 1979–1983 Left-Cousin fucker Paleoegyptianism Tsarist Bolshevism Karl Monarx Juche without the mask (debatably) 3rd Modulation of the Right (According to Gustavo Bueno and his followers)
Alignment(s)	AuthLeft   Monarchists   Socialists  Culturally Variable
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Main: Monarchism Socialism Factions: Constitutional Monarchism Democratic Socialism Social Democracy
Influenced	Attlee Socialism Euskadi Carlism Ikki Kita Thought Inca Theocracy Metternichism Mladorossism Monarcho-Syndicalism Pahlavism Rienzism
Notable people	Wang Mang (45 BC - 23) Imperial China Jan Van Leiden (1509-1534) Netherlands\ Holy Roman Empire Joseph II (1741-1790) Archduchy of Austria Klemens von Metternich (1773-1851) Austrian Empire Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805-1875) Germany Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) China Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) Germany Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) UK Ilya Fondaminsky (1880-1942) Russia Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) Germany (self-proclaimed) Clement Attlee (1883-1967) UK Ikki Kita (1883-1937) Japan Elisabeth Marie von Habsburg-Lothringen (1883-1963) Austria Elisabeth of Romania (1894–1956) Romania Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Spain Inejiro Asanuma (1898-1960) Japan Alexander Lvovich Kazembek (1902-1977) Russia Amanullah Khan (1914-2007) Kingdom of Afghanistan Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal (1921-1973) Kingdom of Afghanistan Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Self proclaimed, 1919-1980) Persia/ Iran (self-proclaimed) Souphanouvong (1909-1995) Laos Michael I (1921-2017) Romania (sort of) Norodom Sihanouk (1922 - 2012) Cambodia Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (1930-2010) Spain Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) Grenada (pragmatically)
Notable examples	Imperial China under Xin Dynasty (9-25) Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
Variations
School of Thought	Celestial Monarchism Agrarian Populism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Corporatocracy Anti-Feudalism Anti-Republicanism Christian Socialism Communalism Crusadism Land Reformism Maragatism Millenarianism Sebastianism Sexocracy Welfarism Conselhismo/Canudos Model Abolitionism Absolute Monarchism Agrarian Populism Anti-Clericalism Anti-Feudalism Anti-Prostitution Anti-Republicanism Anti-Secularism Catholic Theocracy Christian Socialism Communalism Conservative Socialism Gerontocracy Indigenism Land Reformism Localism Millenarianism Police Statism Prohibitionism Reactionary Socialism (accused by Coronelismo) Sebastianism Heliopolitae Model Abolitionism Anti-Romanism Anti-Serfdom Communitarianism Egalitarianism Hellenist Theocracy Populareism Patchwork Stoicism (Gaius Blossius) Inejiro Asanuma Thought Agrarian Syndicalism Anti-Americanism Anti-Capitalism Anti-Imperialism Anti-Liberalism Anti-Masonry Anti-Remilitarization (later) Anti-Westernism Ikki Kita Thought Juche (sympathetic) Left Anti-Communism Left-Wing Nationalism Maoism (sympathetic) Marhaenism Nasserism National Syndicalism Non-Alignedism Pan-Asianism Showa Statism (during WW2) Social Corporatism Social Imperialism (formerly) Stratocracy (formerly) Kemerovo Model (TNO) Rurik II Thought Kakistocracy (Accused) Left-Wing Nationalism Market Socialism Kievan Rus Model (Aesthetically) Pragmatism Reformism Reactionary Socialism (aesthetically) Krylovaism Aristocratic Authoritarian Conservatism Matriarchal Monarchism Militarism Social Authoritarianism Krylovism Paternalism Left-Wing Populism Monarcho-Syndicalism Social Nationalism Münster Rebellion Absolute Monarchism Anabaptist Theocracy Anti-Catholicism Anti-Clericalism Anti-Feudalism Chiliasm Christian Socialism Communalism Mandatory Polygamy Müntzerism Sihanoukism Absolute Monarchism Anti-Communism Authoritarian Conservatism Buddhist Socialism (Self-proclaimed) Buddhist Theocracy Conservative Socialism (Self-proclaimed) Crony Socialism Economic Nationalism Kleptocracy Monarcho-Capitalism National Conservatism Social Authoritarianism State Capitalism Wang Mang Thought Abolitionism Absolute Monarchism Anti-Aristocracy Centralism Chinese Theocracy Confucianism Cult of Personality Kakistocracy Kleptocracy Land Reformism (until 12) Reactionary Socialism Regulationism State Socialism
Character Information
Likes	Socialist Monarchies The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom The Inca Empire Mladorossi Grenada When people know about him
Dislikes	Capitalist Republics People that say that Monarchism and Socialism aren't compatible When people don't know about him
Song	God Save The Queen (Red Army Choir version) Siberian Riflemen + Partisan's Song Pharaoh Atem the tyrant theme Kemerovo Super Event Unification Music

Monarcho-Socialism, often shortened to MonSoc, is a 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 absolute monarchism to a 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

Mladdorossi

The first arguably Monarcho-Socialist movement is the 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.

Euskadi

The first movement that can be almost universally seen as Monarcho-Socialist is the 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 New Jewel Movement did not explicitly advocate for a socialist monarchy. They only kept the monarchy out of pragmatism.

Beliefs

While some Monarcho-Socialists still support absolute-socialist monarchies. according to this poll around 28.4%, most Monarcho-Socialists support a Socialist Government under a Constitutional Monarchy. it is estimated that most MonSocs, at least the constitutionalists, think that Mladorossi does not properly represent modern-day Monarcho-Socialist interests. While the reasons to want a monarchy are divided between stuff like patriotism (although not nationalism) and stability, religious reasons are rarely mentioned. The countries they consider most likely to turn MonSoc if there was one, are countries like Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain if Carlism regains popularity.

Important sections of the Work in Progress MonSoc manifesto "The Case for the Compatibility of Monarchism and Socialism" (not linked here due to author request, since he prefers it to be linked when it's done, although private copies can easily be gotten by DM'ing him) are the "Volkskoning", a king who may he doesn't actively promote a socialist government (perhaps due to constitutional reasons) but also doesn't actively work against it (a prime example of a Volkskoning being Haakon VII of Norway) and the 4 Rights of the People, those rights being the Right of Organisation, Right of Self-Rule, Right of Education and Right of Equality.

Variants

Wang mang

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 abolished slavery and initiated a land redistribution program. Though a learned Confucian scholar who sought to implement the harmonious society he saw in the classics, his efforts ended in chaos.

Sihanouk

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.

Spengler

SPengler was a supporter of Socialist Monarchy and said:"Socialist monarchy—that is an idea that has slowly matured in the Faustian world and has long since reared its proper human protagonists. Authoritative socialism is by definition monarchistic. The most responsible position in this gigantic organism, in Frederick the Great’s words the role of “first servant of the state,” must not be abandoned to ambitious privateers. Let us envision a unified nation in which everyone is assigned his place according to his socialistic rank, his talent for voluntary self-discipline based on inner conviction, his organizational abilities, his work potential, consciousness, and energy, his intelligent willingness to serve the common cause. Let us plan for general work conscription, resulting in occupational guilds that will administrate and at the same time be guided by an administrative council, and not by a parliament. A fitting name for this administrative body, in a state were everyone has a job, be it army officer, civil servant, farmer, or miner, might well be “labor council.”

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.

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

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	205, 42, 33
	Yellow	#FED216	254, 210, 22
	Purple	#832D84	131, 45, 132
	Gold	#FEE400	254, 228, 0
	Red	#FF0000	255, 0, 0

Relationships

Friends

• 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.
• Monarchism - Long live the king! But you need to see the benefits of socialism.
• Monarcho-Syndicalism - Based sister!
• Mladorossism - The Tsar and the Soviets indeed! ONE STRUGGLE.
• Euskadi Carlism - Carlos Hugo did nothing wrong!
• Christian Socialism - The Münster Rebellion was very epic. Hong Xiuquan was based too.
• Neo-Bonapartism - Napoleon III identified himself as a Socialist! But was he really, though?
• Gaddafism - Hell yeah! The way you crowned yourself as King of Kings was based!
• Atlee Socialism - Best British prime minister ever. The red sun will never set on the British Social Empire.

Frenemies

• Anarcho-Monarchism - You confuse me, brother.
• Monarcho-Capitalism - You're right half of the time (and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had some based ideas).
• Bismarckism - You're sooo close! Just drop the Anti-Socialism, please!
• Longism - About as good as you can get within the republican system. You are just like above though just also a fake king.
• 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 those bourgeois , all right?.. Oh wait, Sweden already did. Shame.
• Reactionary Socialism - You have the right idea but you take it way too far.
• 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.
• PSOE - Too moderate and sympathetic to capitalism. But I still like what you did after that old geezer kicked the bucket.
• Paternalistic Conservatism - He is much more likely to support the monarchy than socdem, but has an even higher chance of opposing socialism.
• Juche - We are different but a lot of people seem to think we're the same.
• National Bolshevism - I don't know how to feel about you, but the Mladorossi were extremely based. Ikki Kita also had some... interesting ideas.
• 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.
• 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 Amanullah Khan and Mohammed Zahir Shah in Afghanistan, as well as Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran.
• Social Authoritarianism - Tends to be a republican, but Amanullah Khan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Reza Shah, and to some extent Rama IX were based.

Enemies

• Banana Republicanism - Least exploitative Republic. Literally my polar opposite!
• Nazism - You opposed the monarchy and murdered a bunch of random people.
• Anarcho-Communism - Naive utopian who believes I'm just as bad as the capitalists because I'm a king.
• Classical Liberalism - Your anti-monarchism and worship of laissez-faire economies disgust me.
• Liberalism - You don't believe in monarchies and you let global capitalism hurt the working people, how can I ever like you?
• 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!
• 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 making Pahlavi take a wrong turn, as well as for invading Granada. Maybe... you and the world would have been better off if that revolt failed and you stayed British? After all, your northern neighbor - far from my ideal as he is - still outpaces you a little on healthcare issues...
• Pol Potism - Disgusting, I don't want to be your figurehead.
• Objectivism - The f*ck is this?
• Jacobinism - Bourgeois "revolutionary" and king-killer!
• Girondism - Even worse than the Jacobins due to being pro-capitalist.
• 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.
• Daoudism - You're the reason why Afghanistan turned into a mess and remains so for nearly half a century.
• Lon Nolism - And you're the reason Cambodia turned into a mess.
• Fascism - The monarchists and the socialists fought side by side against your tyrannical Social Republic.

Further Information

Articles

• Inejiro Asanuma: Japan's Nationalist Martyr by Zero Schizo
• A King For The People?

Wikipedia

• Royal Government of the National Union of Kampuchea
• Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
• Sangkum (Popular Socialist Community)
• People's Revolutionary Government
• Cambodian People's Party
• Carlist Party (1970)
• Lys Rouge (First Publication)
• Mladorossi
• Nouvelle Action Royaliste
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
• Economy of the Inca Empire
• History of Socialism in antiquity
• Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
• King of Kings: Libya
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Economy
• Mazdak
• Münster rebellion
• San people: Society
• Afro-Bolivian Monarchy
• Ancient Egypt: Gouvernment and economy
• Palace Economy
• Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
• Qarmatians

Online Communities

• r/MonarchoSocialism

Literature

• A Constitution For the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain

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]

Gallery

Comics

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Portraits and Artwork

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  Old portrait 1

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  Old portrait 1, small

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  Old portrait 2

Alternative designs

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  Old design