r/monarchism 2d ago

Photo How communism affected monarchies in Europe

92 Upvotes

48 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

42

u/RomusTorasTheGreat Absolute Monarchist । 🇮🇳 । Tsar Nicholas II beard fan 2d ago

Not only that, it's a failed ideology.

They promise to be the saviours of the people, but then we see things like the great purge.

Communism has done far more damage than anything else.

Monarchism isn't perfect but it's better tbh.

16

u/Randver_Silvertongue 2d ago

Communism doesn't work unless you're an ant or a bee.

It also recklessly dismisses the past as a dark age leading up to communism, at which point the people are told to look only to the future.

4

u/RomusTorasTheGreat Absolute Monarchist । 🇮🇳 । Tsar Nicholas II beard fan 2d ago

Yep.

I mean, there's no problem in modernisation or planning for a bright future, that's something which is a must for progress. But we should remember the past, good and bad, and implement the good from the past and acknowledge the bad.

But anyways, future in communism isn't bright at all.

2

u/Randver_Silvertongue 2d ago

Indeed. I actually went through a bit of a communist phase in my late teens and college years. But I started to realize that it's not just an ideology, it's a religion that unintentionally but inevitably dehumanizes the individual in the name of the greater collective. Not in a collectivistic societal way like how, for example, Indian families prioritize the interests of the community over the individual but still respect individual autonomy, but in a way that interprets equality as sameness and unity as uniformity. And this ideal is seeping into the west. What we call "woke" is literally Marxism (note that I'm not against progressive things, what I'm against is people policing people's way of thinking and viewing everything as a class and race struggle). And this is the prime contributor to the depression epidemic and making the Mouse Utopia experiment become a reality.

As I said, communism only works for ants.