Monarchy was part of the fuedal system. This system saw power centralised in an aristocratic class which in turn was centred around the monarch
The aristocrats owned ALL the land across Europe. They built castles from which they dominated their surrounding districts
The other big land owner was THE CHURCH. The church had further offshoots which were military orders which were developed to provide armed and trained soldiers for the crusades.
The church had the role of crowning kings and queens. It often intrigued with powerful people to get who it wanted on various throwns at various times. The church was a kingmaker
The king/queen, the aristocrats and the church were collectively known as 'the three estates'. These three groups all held vast land, wealth and power. They controlled the game.
At the bottom of the heap were the common people. They were generally kept illiterate and used to do menial work. They were often bound to their fuedal overlord; this status was known as 'serfdom'
A new class emerged though through trade. This was the merchant class. Amongst the merchant class were the goldsmiths. The goldsmiths were the first bankers. They would hold peoples gold in safe boxes and they would lend gold out for interest. But the goldsmiths soon realised that no one knew how much gold they had in their safe boxes so they started loaning out more gold then they held in deposit. This was the birth of 'fractional reserve banking'....which is a practise still used by banks today.
The tensions between the merchant class and the old order cause various civil wars an revolutions. Each side realised that to hold onto power it would need to protect its own interests. Secret groups were formed with the purpose of holding onto power and wealth
The church, the royals and the aristocrats entrenched themselves in the military, in the secret services, in the parliaments, in the media and in the secret societies to protect their power and position
These groups merged with the emerging merchant and banking class, often intermarrying with them. The royals and aristocrats had to wage war to keep their power and to do so they borrowed wealth from the merchant/banking class. The bankers also realised that they could make even more money by lending war loans to BOTH sides in a war! Soon the aristocracy and royals were so in debt to the bankers that effectively the bankers owned the country lock, stock and barrel. The bankers convinced the royals that what was needed was athe creation of a central bank, that could control the wealth of the nation. Through this the bankers could then control the interest rates of the country as well as the amount of money in circulation
The most powerful banking dynasty to emerge was the rothschilds. The founder of the dynasty had four sons and he trained them all in banking. he then sent them to open new branches of the family banking houses in the 4 greatest capitals of europe. They did this and all worked together to corner the market in gold.
The new central banking system saw the british economy fail as the bankers sucked all the wealth out of the economy. This meant that the British had to tax their imperial colonies even more. One group of colonies in the americas decided that they did not want to pay all the money they worked so hard for to the central bankers so they took up arms and threw the british government out of the colonies. They then created their own currency called 'colonial script' which they could control the supply of so the central bankers could not create economic crises by alternately making credit cheaply available and then hard to get, causing boom and bust cycles
These colonial rebels then set themselves up as their own country and they wrote a constitution (Britain does not have a constitution to protect itself) to protect itself and future generations from the central bankers
The central bankers however didn't get so powerful by just giving up whenever they suffered a set back. They set their mind to taking control of the new United States of America
The central bankers were a group of families many of which originated in germany. They all did and still do business with each other and they all intermarry with each other. Today they ahve their central office in the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland (which is where the nazis sent their gold for safe keeping)
The bankers used agents to buy up land and businesses in the USA. They set up banking, steel, railway and oil companies in the USA. They knew that people were very suspicious of them so they operated through agents such as J.P.Morgan.
The big aristocratic families of Europe also saw the new USA as a business opportunity and they set up businesses there as well
This new powerful elite began forming companies (corporations) as a way to protect themselves from any business failures. Corporations are granted 'personhood' which gives them the legal status of an actual person, so if the business fails the financial liability falls onto the corporation and not onto the people who set up the company.
Early examples were the East India Company which traded in India. The EIC created private armies of british mercenaries and indian sepoys which it used to invade districts and intimidate rulers.
The EIC would play off the rulers of different districts against each other. It would go to the ruler of one district and say ''who is your enemy? We will help you defeat your enemy but in return we want land, taxes, spices (or whatever)''
Once they had defeated the rulers enemy they would then betray that ruler and take over his district as well. All the while taking over larger and larger areas of land and exerting more taxes from the people.
This same british elite had descended from norman and flemish invaders who invaded Britain. They taxed the native britons as well and many folk lore tales of bandits who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor come from that time.
The East India Company effectively too over India through treachery, violence and intimidation. This is also known as 'piracy' and the british are the most accomplished pirates in human history. In fact many pirates were operating with permission from the royal crown; these were known as 'privateers'.
When the Indians rose up in what the british later called 'the indian mutiny', but what is now being called under revisionism 'the indian uprising' the british crown decided to step in and take control of the situation. The british government got rid of sepoy armies as they had 'mutinied' and they put british soldiers in their place. Over a million indians died in a famine caused by british over taxation whilst Queen Victoria became the 'empress of india'
When i say 'british overtaxation' i do of course mean a british government being controlled by the central bankers. The people behind the corporations meanwhile shrugged and said ''it wasn't me, it was the corporation''
These corporations became the perfect way for the old european elites and the new american elites which grew out of them to take risks without taking any responsibility for their economic failures or their crime against humanity
The british common people meanwhile were working under slave conditions in the mills of the industrial revolution. They were no longer 'serfs' but they were now working long days, with no eductaion or healthcare in dangerous jobs. Life expectancy was low.
The rural communities were gutted as people were driven off the land by the moneyed elite so that they could put sheep on it. The wool from the sheep was then spun in the mills. The british elite then subsidised the british textile industry to make it more competitive.
The indians had always had their own home spun textiles and they could not compete with a subsidised product....a product which was subsidised using the taxes which were taken from the indian people as their country was systematically raped
Ghandi was a lawyer who knew the britsh legal system inside out. he worked in the british colonies in africa and he knew how the system worked. He saw how his countrymen/women were being exploited and how the british workers were being pitted against the indian workers to the detriment of all except the moneyed elites who made bigger and bigger profits.
So Ghandi tried to inspire his countrymen/women to wear their own homespun, traditional clothes and not the clothes of the west so that they would not be sucked into the games of the british moneyed elite. he encouraged INDEPENDENCE and SELF RELIANCE not reliance on the corporations
This is why the Indian spinning wheel is now in the centre of their flag.
In the Uk the british workers were suffering terribly; their condition often being compassionately captured in the work of the writer Charles Dickens who himself had had to live in a 'workhouse' as a boy. Stories such as 'Oliver Twist' come from this time
Throughout this period the elites of europe had all been competing with each other for the new lands which were being discovered all the time around the world. Each sought to create its own empire. These empires clashed all the time and the bankers profited as much as they could from the carnage often funding both sides in the wars which led to conflicts being drawn out even longer than they might....a tactic later used by the USA which funded both sides in the Iran/Iraq war...always keeping a balance of power between the two sides to ensure they both fought themselves to utter destruction.
So the workers began to club together to try and improve their lives. They would share what little resources they had. They formed book clubs so that they could share books. The elite couldn't understand why the writer Robert Burns was able to create the poetry he did when he was just a simple ploughman, but in reality his father had used what small money he could scrape together to club together with some others from his community to get a tutor for their children. The poor crofters were exposed to all the great writers of the past and present and learned to form their own opinions about the bible and current affairs, which may not always have agreed with the church propaganda that was 'preached' to them from the pulpit in the kirk every sunday.
The workers also formed friendly societies, credit unions, cooperatives and trade unions to try and better represent their interests against the heartless profiteering of the moneyed elites. Gradually ideas formed into ideologies but the ideas were old enough for example the 'diggers' and 'levellers' had tried in the 1600's to cultivate unused land for the benfit of the community; they were of course violently suppressed by the elite.
ideologies such as 'communism' emerged where many workers realised that they had nothing to lose but their chains as marx put it. The word communism has been completely missused in the last century and applied to states where a large controlling government manages a centrally planned economy.
This however is NOT communism. None of the so called 'communist' countries ever got past the 'dicatorship of the proletariat' stage to see the true vision where all is held in common and the workers themselves manage the means of production.
'left wing' should not mean big government...that is 'state' socialism not true socialism
The elites began to get worried and they had to give ground at different times to people who were beginning to find more and more of a voice. In fact by the time the first world war came around the workers movements were becoming incredibly strong and looked fit to change the system altogether.
However the elites created a nationalistic conflict which saw workers recruited under their nations flag to fight the workers of another country. This conflict saw millions killed and crippled and it took the wind out of the sails of the workers movements.
The elites did however realise after each world war that they had to give the common people better working conditions or at least be seen to be doing something because they were afraid of what a generation of men trained as soldiers and a generation of women empowered by doing the mens work when they were away at war might do if they got angry
The elite needed their own ideology. In fascism they found their perfect vehicle for the continuance of their power. fascism protects corporations and private wealth under a strong, centrally controlled, police state.
The strong state spies on the workers and uses violence and strict laws to control them whislt the corporations take all their wealth away. The fascist state takes all the publics guns off them and it doesn't want them to be independent or self reliant....it wants them to be reliant on the state and on the corporations that are behind the state
fascism is a government of the corporations and the corporations are simply wealth creating vehicles for the aristocracy, royalty, merchants, bankers and church
This is why the church has ALWAYS supported fascist regimes. That's not to say that everyone in the church has done this. Many brave people from the lower ranks of the church have broken from the churches offical stance to support the workers
Fascism is the end of freedom for workers. Fascism is the rise of the elite and their total domination of the workers. The writer george orwell described this as a jackboot on the neck of humanity forever
So it really all boils down to whether a person beleives that all people have certain rights and should be part of a healthy and sharing community or whether the majority of people should be a slave class working under the powerful elite that wants to know everything they are doing because they live in a paranoid bubble of fear, always terrified that the workers might rebel
Modern workers are not 'serfs' anymore; today they are 'wage slaves'. They might be able to move from one district to the next but in reality they are bound by various restraints such as qualifications, amounts of employment opportunities, connections or lack of them, funds or lack of them etc
As people become more and more dependent on the corporations and less and less self reliant and independent they lose more and more of their personal power to the corporations and the powerful moneyed elite behind them
Monarchy is part of modern fascism. Monarchy is part of the current elite and that is why royalty will attend such exclusive elite meetings as the bilderberg club. The central bankers are moving us closer and closer to the odl system of serfdom which is why some commentators are calling this a drift towards 'neo-fuedalism'
There is however a backlash developing amongst the workers around the world and protests are sparking off all around the world. more and more workers are beginning to understand what their true condition is and feel more motivated to do something about it.
Just as the merchant class rose to get a seat at the top table...now is the time for the workers of the world to rise and claim their seat
''A Mans a man for all that'' (in the Scots toungue)- Robert Burns
Is there for honest Poverty
That hings his head, an' a' that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that.
Our toils obscure an' a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The Man's the
gowd for a' that.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear
hoddin grey, an' a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that:
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, an' a' that;
The honest man, tho'
e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.
Ye see
yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a
coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent
mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.
A prince can
mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he
maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride
o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall
bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that,
an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for
a' that.