I've been thinking about how rulers in history maintained power and essentially narrowed it down to three categories.
>Religious Authorities
>Oligarchs and Industrialists
>Monarchs, Aristocrats and Nobles
Obviously there can be an overlap between the three, but I feel like this is a pretty good generalization. Am I missing anything?
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Yes.
Rule through sheer willpower.
Can you give me any examples of this?
The Romans.
>Guys who had been literally been founded by a pack of bandits
>Guys, who gave up on kings and founded a republic
Anon, I...
Anon you what?
>Fortvna avdaces avdivit
google it
>Rule through sheer willpower.
That looks like a israelite. My genes are Judenfrei.
Napoleon never existed
Napoleon existed and was inspired by the spirit of Mars Vltor.
>How rulers in history maintained power
It's called ARMY
Every authority has an army, whether it is Spanish Inquisitors or Pinkertons.
It's part of basic social order even insect queens that rule through pheromone need soldiers to protect them.
Typically that's the aristocracy and nobles, the (often horse-owning) warrior class. See: knights, equites, kshatriya, samurai.
Definitely on the right path! Did you know that Aristotle discovered that the number 3(three) is a significant number on Earth? I ask that because it's obvious that you have three sections to your pie graph there. Great job! I can't think of much to add from there.
>Title: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
>Author: Paul Kennedy
>Publisher: Vintage
Try reading that book. I purchased my own copy a long long time ago it's a great read!
"There's a difference between power and energy." - ???
I'd be careful by the time you're tempted to lead a group or be a part of a lead-group. Because either way—it'd be the death/fall of /all of you. Have you ever played Jenga? Or Dominos? It's precisely how it works!
OP you are a good thinker with a strong intellect. Please, for the love of God, and for your own sanity, read more.
A brilliant intellect deprived of good education (there is only one: massive private reading) is a bowl of past without a sauce.
It doesn't matter how big the bowl is nobody wants it for dinner without sauce. And you can only dish up what you have sauce to cover.
Go read 1,000 pages from five volumes and come back and post afterwards.
I think you’re missing people with humble backgrounds who rise in power and popularity through the military
Like who? Caesar and Napoleon were both rich before they gained political power?
Muhammad Ali, Ataturk, Sun Yat-sen
Ali didn't rule anything.
Egypt is nothing?
Wtf are you talking about?
Muhammad Ali ruled Egypt, Syria, and the Hejaz during the early 19th century.
I believe he unironically thought you were talking about the boxer
Do you know about Max Weber? He also identified 3 types of legitimate authorities: Traditional, Charismatic and Legal.
But he was talking about the justificationss of power, not the source of power itself.
https://www.panarchy.org/weber/politics.html
>Am I missing anything?
All three always overlap.