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	Despotism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This form of despotism was the first known form of statehood and civilization; the Pharaoh of Egypt is a hallmark of a classical despot.
		However, under the concept of benevolent or enlightened despotism, which came to prominence in 18th century Europe, absolute monarchs used their authority to institute a number of reforms in the political systems and societies of their countries.
		Despotism is a social system in Animals with one individual dominating the rest of the flock, which are all equally subserviant to him and of equal rank with each other.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Despotism (409 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: Dr. Adler's Briefing Room Extension
		Tyrannical despotism is totally unjust, because the de facto rulers govern with no one's consent, with no one's participation, and for their own good rather than for the good of the governed.
		Nevertheless, that benevolence is curtailed by a despotism that denies the right of human beings to be governed with their consent, with a voice in their own government, and with all their natural rights secured.
		Lenin had said, of course, that the dictatorship of the proletariat under the despotic regime of the party was the penultimate stage of the revolution.
	radicalacademy.com /adlerbriefing12.htm (3202 words)

	despotism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In Greek usage, a despot was ruler of a household and master of its slaves.
		In the Byzantine Empire, despot was a title of honor of the emperors and their relatives and of vassal princes of the tributary states and dignitaries of the Eastern Church.
		The 18th-century doctrine of the Enlightenment influenced such absolutist rulers as Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine II of Russia, and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II toward a rule of beneficent intent known as benevolent despotism.
	www.bartleby.com /65/de/despotis.html (220 words)

	Buchanan: Collected Works, Brennan and Buchanan, The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution, ...
		In the latter, government is modeled as a benevolent despot, as an imaginary entity that can listen to, accept, and act upon the policy advice proffered by the economist.
		However, the very usage of the equi-revenue constraint depends upon the acceptance of the benevolent despotism model of politics, a proviso that is rarely made explicit and may not even be realized by many of those who participate in the discussion.
		Once the benevolent despotism model of governmental behavior is abandoned, the orthodox suggestions for tax reform that tend to emerge from the equi-revenue analytical framework cannot stand alone.
	www.econlib.org /library/buchanan/buchCv9c10.html (7087 words)

	Fearful Masters
		The wisdom of Morgan's decision to become the benevolent despot seems confirmed by the birth of this Golden Age.
		An earthly despotism would be the absolutely perfect earthly government, if the conditions were the same, namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race," explains Morgan.
		Benevolent despotism - even despotism in the interest of liberty - relieves the people of their responsibility to think for themselves.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/twain.htm (2344 words)

	AllRefer.com - despotism (Political Science: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		despotism, government by an absolute ruler unchecked by effective constitutional limits to his power.
		However, despot is now a term of opprobrium.
		See L. Krieger, ed., An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism (1975); K. Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (1981); F. Maitland, The Theory of Despotism in Germany (1988).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/despotis.html (284 words)

	Alphonse van Worden: Bodhisattva Bush
		What else would a benevolent despot do?] and not merely to keep his promise but in hope of actually helping the monster [us, the unruly] who "deserves only pity, who is immersed in the mire of wicked habits...
		Without the despot, the landlord prince intellectual demonstrates, humanity is at the mercy of its monstrous, greedy, insubordinate hideous unruly self, its own ugly benighted violent nature.
		Like the Buddha Gautama and posse, the benevolent despots, the landlord priests of Iraq, began their altruistic project gaining còntrol of the water, controlling humanity's access water (in the desert!) and thus managing and disciplining the thirst of Iraqis, preventing them from satisfying that selfishness to excess.
	alphonsevanworden.blogspot.com /2005/01/bodhisattva-bush.html (3929 words)

	Poll - WARBUCKET FORUMS
		despotism is a government under the rule of a despot, which is basically is a dictator.
		If a person wishes to see an end (speaking psychologically, an end means a beginning for the people of the new society) then the process that person is willing to undergo may need to be slightly contradictory to that end.
		The leader of humanity forever, able to see all sides of the issue, a genius, and fair and benevolent.
	www.warbucket.com /ibforums/index.php?showtopic=13420 (779 words)

	despotism
		But this same principle of equality which facilitates despotism tempers its rigor.
		A variation of the term is benevolent despotism, which refers specifically to a form of rulership that came to prominence in the 18th century.
		American despotism Posted: September 29, 2004 1:00 am Eastern...
	www.jointctr.org /?Category=despotism (295 words)

	How to Save the World
		Richard Rorty, writing in the Australian magazine The Age, describes the new political reality that is beginning to replace democracy as "Relatively benevolent despotism".
		This 'relatively benevolent despotism' was most startlingly articulated by Ashcroft in his famous quotation (probably written for him by David Frum or one of the other neocon hacks):
		China's leaders' brutal and enormously successful suppression of democracy, personal freedoms, and the right of dissent are, of course, legendary, and the gushing enthusiasm with which most Western leaders have embraced relations with these despots, due solely to China's willingness to trade with them, illustrates these Western leaders' priorities.
	blogs.salon.com /0002007/categories/politicsEconomics/2004/10/12.html (1403 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		7 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Despotism *\Des"potism\**, n.
		The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
		A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=despotism (105 words)

	despotism - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Despotism : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include despotism: benevolent despotism, despotism despot, enlightened despotism, oriental despotism
		Words similar to despotism: absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, one-man rule, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=despotism (220 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Lest you forget...
		A benevolent despot might be what they need.
		Mmm, Snippet, we've tried benevolent (or more-or-less benevolent) despotism in that part of the world for decades.
		Maybe, just maybe, if we'd let the peoples of these countries practice democracy some of the time, they might be ready by now to get it right.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2006/02/lest_you_forget.php (540 words)

	Microsoft, The Internet, and Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And just as we don't want a despot, no matter how benevolent, it does not matter even if Microsoft's software is and always will be the best in the world free to boot (or reboot).
		For those who have tasted democracy and freedom, despotism has been relegated forever to history -- even benevolent despotism.
		Disneyland is a nice place to go on vacation, but I am glad eventually to go home, or have an unordered world outside to explore on my own, with my own equipment.
	cispom.boisestate.edu /murli/rants/micronet.html (585 words)

	Contra Cabal 801-07-00 - Council House, Seattle - Disconnected Lunacy - Benevolent Despotism
		In fact, the residence management subsists as a benevolent dictatorship.
		At Council House, managers enforce an ideology that advocates oppressive, dictatorial control operated under the aegis of a "democratic fascism".
		GAO reported that part of the problem relates to lack of clear instruction by its field staff to property owners on how to follow up on inspection reports.
	www.contracabal.org /801-07-00.html (1855 words)

	Meehan Reports
		And they were succeeding on every front, moving the world toward: "Benevolent despotism accompanied by an entertaining show of elections and plebiscites--which meant nothing at all."
		Today, when we see so much evil around us--and when so much of it seems premeditated by "courtly and genial" gentlemen--it is tempting to believe Caldwell's scenario.
		The eugenicists and the power elite apparently want to have a controlled world in which people range from middle-class to wealthy, with everyone a good producer and a big consumer, so the world economy will keep humming along.
	www.meehanreports.com /elite.html (2443 words)

	despotism
		An Essay on the Theory of Enlightened Despotism
		The World's Most Notorious Despots - The World's Most Notorious Despots by Borgna Brunner The Me Millennium Infoplease's top ten despots...
		When, in 1204, the army of the Fourth Crusade set up the Latin Empire of...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0815291.html (257 words)

	Mysticism and Kingship in China - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As the Confucian tradition interacted with the Taoist and the Buddhist, the religious character of spiritual and mystical cultivation became more pronounced.
		But the sage-king idea continued, promoting expectations of benevolent despotism rather than democratisation in Chinese civilisation.
		• Argues that the sage-king ideal has promoted expectations of benevolent despotism, not democratisation in China
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521462932 (299 words)

	Despotism - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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	ovid_comments_fragment
		Ovid lived in a time defined by benevolent despotism, the era of Augustus in the Roman Republic--31 B. Metamorphosis means change.
		We will begin with a discussion of "change" as a concept.
		We have, perhaps in western myth, remained reticent about the power of the erotic: Williams writes: "The erotic world is silenced, reduced to a collection of objects we can curate and control, be it a vase, a woman, or wilderness."
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/ovid_comments_fragment.htm (928 words)

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