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Subject: Re: Autocracy is bunk
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God was displeased when his people asked for a monarch in place of
judicial federalism (1 Samuel 8:1-22), so he could not possibly think
monarchy sacred. Besides, Gregory's notion was opposed to the peacetime
duarchy of the Roman Republic and does not contradict the monarchical form of
presidential republics. Just as fascism arose in shocked reaction to
bolshevism, autocracy arose in shocked reaction to the Frech Revolution whose
Napoleonic outcome Russia ended. The result was Russia suppressed 1848
central European revolution sending refugees to become USA abolitionists and
laborists, leaving behind those who would become fascists and nazis. The
populist autocracy Vatikiotis (1998) shows also motivated Metaxas inevitably
extended free health care and the Mokosh pagan obschina which defeated
Stolypin's reforms by claiming land to be one's unsellable "mother". One
cannot deny therefore that populist autocracy inevitably devolves into
bolshevism as even the most leftist Greeks today admire Metaxan socialism
(although Metaxas' rightist fans are ever-quick to deny this, the Metaxan and
communist youth leagues were both not coincidentally called Little Eagles or
Aetopoula) and Hitler considered himself a National Socialist. Even the New
Deal was based on General Johnson's admiration for Mussolinii's economist
Viglione. Perpetual Metaxan, Venizelist, and Peronist coups (which dared to
censor and revise ancient authors) owe their notions to Napoleon. Bikelas
(1890) shows us instead that Byzantium was the most democartic state of its
day. Likewise before tatarism (Schmemann HREO p305) stole Russia's soul from
within, Russia elected the Romanovs to replace the Ruriks. Novgorodian and
Varangian Rus was definitely democratic and commerialist rather than
autocratic and agrarian. Whereas Walter RUssel Meade shows Anglo-Dutch
commercialism revised that of the Greeks, Anglophobia inevitably derives from
those nostalgic (Dalin, Mufti) for franchises under the Kaiser's Ottomans
that the British, with their Jordanian and Israeli allies, terminated when
they defeated and ended the Ottoman Empire.
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Subject: Re: Democracy: Whose idea was this?
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010
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In 1204 Baldwin's Crusaders Byzantium found themselves forced to adhere to
Byzantine governance which in 1215 they plagiarised into the Magna
Carta. Byzantine emperors were subject to Senate vetoes and impeachment as
well as Hippodrome town hall meetings. Autocrats hence have referred to due
process as "byzantine" complication. Furthermore, the Acropolis Parthenon
spent more time as a Christian Church than a pagan temple. Byzantium was
founded by Athenians seeking Dniester wheat (as Spartans sought Sicilian
wheat) which is why emperors sought Athenian brides. Russia was divided by
the Tatar Turks and Litwo Polish 1200-1667 while Greece was split between the
Ottoman Turks and Venetians 1452-1947.
7Essays on Christian Greece, Demetrios Bikelas, Garnder, Paisley, 1890
[repr Scottish_Review]
p14 This Legitimist sentiment, so marked by the New Rome, was
certainly not derived from the Old.. in England the scrupulous
retention of certain old-world official customs.. ridiculous in the
eyes of foreigners, is accompanied by the most perfect excercise of liberty
p63 [quotes Finlay] The authority exercised by the Senate, the powers
possessed by the Synods and General Councils of the Church, and the
importance often attached by the Emperors to the ratification of their laws
by silentia and popular assemblies, mark a change in the Byzantine Empire, in
strong contrast with the earlier military Empire of the Romans.. power..
transferred from the army to the laws.. humanity.. visible in the mild
treatment of many unsuccessful usurpers and dethroned Emperors.. [coronation
oath, Kodinos, de Officiis cap xvii] to abide and perpetually be found a
faithful and sincere servant and son of Holy Church, and moreover her
defender and avenger.. abstain from bloodshed.. [.].. many of the worst
Emperors were deposed by popular indignation
p65 [M A Rambaud "Le Monde Byzantine et l'Hippodrome" Rvu Deux
Mondes, 15AUG1871 - at the Hippodrome] Byzantine people made and
unmade Emperors; there that justice was administered and the guilty
punished, and that triumphs were celebrated over barbarians and
rebels; there that the masses grazed upon wonders of art and of nature
p72-3 [Montrevil says] The Greeks are by their very nature
philosophical or speculative. The search for abstract truth is to them
more attractive than the pursuit of reforms or the regulation of manners.
They are a race eminently literary. They have always been thinkers rather
than statesmen. They seized accordingly upon that side of Theology which most
appealed to their natural genius. The heresies which arose among them were
begotten by the same spirit.. proclivity towards idealism
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