tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post5909993815842817950..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: The Case for Monarchy: GermanyMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-16258095499273725512016-04-07T09:31:00.274-05:002016-04-07T09:31:00.274-05:00Excellent article, thanks! However, as a Catholic,...Excellent article, thanks! However, as a Catholic, I'd like to see a Wittelsbacher as head of state, not a Prussian. Besides, the Wittelsbacher are the only German royal family who kept their nose clean as far as the Nazis are concerned.The_Editrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529769143608862966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-17393679327097590552013-05-20T20:46:46.492-05:002013-05-20T20:46:46.492-05:00I hope for the day that Germany is once more a pro...I hope for the day that Germany is once more a proud, militaristic nation as it was in the past. However, Germany would not be that nation without Prussia and without the Kaiser.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10565158856830153423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-44062771531753870642012-07-27T14:16:29.585-05:002012-07-27T14:16:29.585-05:00I am eager to see what happens when the last of th...I am eager to see what happens when the last of the old Germans die out and there is no longer an enfeeble finger instructing Germany to exist under a shadow of shame.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10448583613895588379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-55752236448241878682012-05-03T01:31:27.227-05:002012-05-03T01:31:27.227-05:00Most people in America know nothing about Germany ...Most people in America know nothing about Germany other than Hitler and Nazis, as you said. That is what we all get taught from an early age. They just assume that everybody living in Germany and in the German military during WWII was a Nazi and it is poor teaching and poor history.olioliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10695305944834043766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-2196378724267106172012-01-20T21:50:59.049-06:002012-01-20T21:50:59.049-06:00In one way or another, everything in history "...In one way or another, everything in history "paved the way" for everything that came after. This was not an article on which Germany I most preferred nor a defense of the German Empire nor a claim that the German Empire was better than anything that came before it. It was an argument for the restoration of the monarchy -which I thought was pretty clear. It was certainly not a defense of the welfare state (which I would oppose simply as a believer in the sanctity of private property). As far as ideological foundations go, you would have to stretch credibility to the breaking point to say that any of these regimes had anything to do with the other.<br /><br />Nazi Germany was a dictatorship, Weimar was a democratic republic and the empire was a constitutional monarchy. Imperial Germany no more "paved the way" for Weimar than the ancien regime did for the first French Republic. Imperial Germany had to be torn down for Weimar to be created. If you're going to stretch so far as saying that because nationalism and social welfare existed in the German Empire it led to Weimar then you'd have to say the Confederation did as well as it was based on a nationalistic idea -uniting (loosely) the German peoples, excluding those parts of Austria and Prussia that were not German. The only thing that paved the way for Hitler was Weimar because he was able to gain power within it, he did not have to bring it down in order to gain power. Weimar, on the other hand, could only come about after the Empire had been destroyed.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-39373778611607772872012-01-20T21:35:40.265-06:002012-01-20T21:35:40.265-06:00The nationalists and the liberals failed to establ...The nationalists and the liberals failed to establish a united German state during the reign of the German Confederation. The nationalists and the liberals succeeded with the establishment of the German Empire.<br /><br />I especially despise that shrewd politician Bismark for founding the modern welfare state that now plagues the west and all states that call themselves 'modern'. I disdain the German Empire not because it centralized authority with the Kaiser. I disdain the German Empire because of the nationalistic, liberal ideologies upon which it was founded. <br /><br />I am not proposing that modern Germany should return to the confederate model, though I wouldn't mind if it did. I am simply saying that I favor the historical German Confederation over the historical German Empire. I am saying that the German Empire paved the way for the Weimer Republic and the Nazis due to its ideological foundations. It more directly paved the way for the Weimer Republic than it did for the Nazis but, like you said, the Weimer Republic paved the way for the Nazis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-65786300973916332362012-01-20T20:37:53.377-06:002012-01-20T20:37:53.377-06:00By that logic, the German Confederation paved the ...By that logic, the German Confederation paved the way for the German Empire and would be equally to blame. You can find better organizations (at least I can) going back in history century after century but that doesn't get us down the road. If monarchists want to be successful they have to at some point be realistic and deal with the facts as they exist.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-82993562032807471082012-01-20T17:54:18.756-06:002012-01-20T17:54:18.756-06:00I agree with most of what you said in this post. H...I agree with most of what you said in this post. However, I have a somewhat different view of the German Empire. In my opinion, the German Empire, with its universal suffrage, its mass conscription, its welfare state and its nationalistic foundation, is what paved the way for the Weimer Republic and the Nazis. I much prefer the German confederation that preceded it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-51667903138458078392012-01-19T16:41:07.669-06:002012-01-19T16:41:07.669-06:00Just once I'd like to be criticized for someth...Just once I'd like to be criticized for something I actually said instead of something I didn't. I said: <br /><br />"This denial of history has gone to such lengths that the former Kingdom of Prussia, not just a former state, not just a former country but the country which brought about the unification of Germany, was totally wiped from the map."<br /><br />I did not "blame" the Bundesrepublik, I did not blame the Allies -I simply pointed it out as being part of an overall trend of wiping out pre-1918 history. However, I usually double-down when struck so I will say I do blame the Germans to some extent. The Allied powers don't rule Germany anymore and havn't for a long time. The Germans are big boys and girls who can make their own decisions and they could have restored Prussia, restored all the states and the imperial monarchy if they wished to.<br /><br />Blaming outsiders never improved anything. You improve by taking responsibility for your own state of affairs and doing something about it, not by pointing fingers.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-35681485665489211862012-01-19T08:57:41.961-06:002012-01-19T08:57:41.961-06:00My Father is German and although I get most of my ...My Father is German and although I get most of my Monarchist Beliefs from my British Mother, I know deep down that the restoration of the Monarchy is the Only Hope for Germany to beat back this downward tide, if only Germany would take the advice of Ludwig Von Mises Instutie advice on Monarchy, everyone seems to think a King is a ruler, when he is in fact a servant of his people, making sure his country prospers, not a Kleptocracy like how Republics operate!Kc Lionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466253913797380767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-73146018147049651262012-01-19T04:51:19.335-06:002012-01-19T04:51:19.335-06:00You may blame the German republic(s) for many thin...You may blame the German republic(s) for many things, but that Prussia was "totally wiped from the map" is not the Germans fault. The Allies decreed on 25th February 1947 the elimination of the Prussian state (Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 46 Auflösung des Staates Preußen). And it happened to be the Allies who created "new states" (Länder) to which the various bits of Prussia were re-assembled.<br /><br />There is a slight possibility of a Prussian resurrection: Should the Brandenburg and Berlin (both so-called Länder - states) be amalgamated, then the new Land may be called Prussia. But the plan failed once, the majority of the people in Brandenburg objected to form one Land with Berlin.radical royalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00438964016034979338noreply@blogger.com