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(Created page with "'Gangsta King' is a term originaly coined by Haz in a livestream that took place February 3rd 2023, titled "My GROUNDBREAKING political theory".<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4CwXLCVKQs</ref> The term refers to rulers and leaders in the 21st century who - by their form of exercising authority, statehood and sovereignty - go against universal enlightment liberalism. The term is meant to invoke names such as Gaddafi, Maduro, Putin, Xi, Assad or Kim Jong Un. === T...") |
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The term refers to rulers and leaders in the 21st century who - by their form of exercising authority, statehood and sovereignty - go against universal enlightment liberalism. The term is meant to invoke names such as Gaddafi, Maduro, Putin, Xi, Assad or Kim Jong Un. | The term refers to rulers and leaders in the 21st century who - by their form of exercising authority, statehood and sovereignty - go against universal enlightment liberalism. The term is meant to invoke names such as Gaddafi, Maduro, Putin, Xi, Assad or Kim Jong Un. | ||
===Theoretical underpinnings=== | |||
=====Premodern sovereignty===== | |||
Mandate from Heaven. Divine right of Kings. Right by inheritence. | |||
=====The break from premodern sovereignty===== | |||
Merchantile banks of Italy. Challengers of premodern rulers by change in material conditions. 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. Hegelian/Zizekian concept of the fall. | |||
Machiavelli and Us, by Luis Althusser. | |||
Enlightentment and the Universal state. Open societies. | |||
===== | =====Malign sovereignty - The so called tyranny and authoritarianism===== | ||
After this break, it was no longer politically viable to go back to old forms of sovereignty in the eyes of liberalism. | |||
The term is also meant to invoke a critique of the established view on tyranny. | |||
Draconic law. Julius Ceasar, book by Parenti. | |||
Dialectic between oligarchy and tyrant. Cultural revolution. The red terror. | |||
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