Talk:Despotism

message: Not sure where to put this but when you google despotism, the web page description is obscene. Not sure how to fix it either.
:(Seems OK now!)  SquisherDa (talk) 06:17, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  not sure 

message: Should despotism really have its own entry (as opposed to the title "Despot" which has historical significance)?  It's not clear to me that the concept is sufficiently distinct from dictatorship to merit its own page.--Sjsilverman 05:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Despot / Despotism 

message: Is there a source for the following statement? "In the Orthodox Liturgy, if celebrated in Greek, the priest is addressed by the deacon as "despot" even today."--Sjsilverman 05:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  source? 

message: I am confused about the difference between a despotism and a dictatorship. They seem the same. Could someone clear that up for me.
Yes, between this an absolute monarchy. The Monarchy has absolute power to do whatever he wants, so does a Despot, I don't see the difference. The snare (talk) 02:44, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Despotism vs Dictatorship 

message: The picture looks like a Cold War era propaganda poster to me, all it really says is 'despotism = bad' and doesn't help anyone understand what 'despotism' is, or what makes it different from other forms of authoritarian government [monarchy, dictatorship, etc.].... it just seems more like a judgement than anything else. 
--Filippo Argenti 22:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture/NPOV 

message: The Papacy is often called a despotic by various people, but I'm not too sure what to think of it, and whether it may be relevant or not.  ADM (talk) 09:22, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Papacy 

message: Between autocracy and despotism? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  11:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the difference... 

message: "According to Montesquieu, the difference between absolute monarchy and despotism is that in the case of the monarchy, a single person governs with absolute power.[6]"
As opposed to what? What does a despotism do differently here? Is it the fact that a despotism could be an oligarchy (of which I've never heard before, I assumed they were totally different)? We need a general consensus and some real studies on the difference between the two. 86.86.215.140 (talk) 11:16, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. The rest of the sentence had been removed by vandalism some time ago. It has now been reinserted, so it now reads: "According to Montesquieu, the difference between absolute monarchy and despotism is that in the case of the monarchy, a single person governs with absolute power by fixed and established laws, whereas a despot governs by his or her own will and caprice". The section could easily do with an expansion, but at least now it makes some sort of sense. --Saddhiyama (talk) 19:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between absolute monarchy and despotism 

message: Seems to be basically the same article. Doug Weller (talk) 13:50, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, page deleted as created by a sock puppet. Doug Weller talk 01:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

text: Turns out to be a synonym for Absolute monarchy. Doug Weller talk 06:37, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Despotic monarchy]] 

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message: Should we add some famous example of despotism in litterateur and art? We don’t have a lot of despotic governments we can reference towards, and this will add something who is looking for litterateur and art in this category.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.243.138.234 (talk) 20:18, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Literature.   Please learn to spell. 2605:8D80:4E1:BC0F:871:3E03:C1D9:AEC1 (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Despotism in litterateur and art