The concept of a monarchy or royal family,
which supports the institutionalised domination by one group of
people over the rest of the society, is in direct conflict with an
Egalitarian philosophy.
Therefore, no Egalitarian society
would ever allow (someone who claims to be) a monarchy, or a
person who represents a monarchy, to hold the office of Head of
State or Member of the Government. And this means an Egalitarian Australia will have no choice
but to take that other big first step: the step that represents
that we are an island unto ourselves, and that we have enough
belief in our own intellectual, physical, and economic
capabilities to take charge of our own destiny, and to set a
different course than that which is being taken by our mother and
brother countries. That is, we can no longer be a member of the
commonwealth of nations because a requirement for being a member
the commonwealth of nations is to accept a monarchy (or a
representative of the monarchy) as the Head of
State.
In general, the monarchy
represents extremely unacceptable ways of gaining and maintaining power
and wealth, such as....
- military domination and murder (We claim control of the
country through war, murder, betrayal, and any other ruthless
act that achieves victory),
- police domination (The police force
works on behalf of the monarchy to keep the citizens toothless
and oppressed),
- religious domination (The
institutionalisation
of specific religions, which support the
beliefs and ambitions of the monarchy, and which preach to their members
that only the royal family has god's approval to rule),
- legal domination (Creating laws that
only allow the monarchy the legally rule over the society),
- political domination (Constructing a
political system that allows the monarchy to hold the most
political power),
- economic domination (The monarchy
and his/her rule family have the right to more wealth than all others, and/or
to determine who can own land and/or the
means of production),
- genetic/feudal/class domination (Social
and economic power is kept within the family or ruling class
through inheritance, which is justified on a genetic basis. That
is, we are genetically superior beings, and therefore leadership
will be kept in our family. Possessing greater skills or talent is not
a legal reason to hold more social or economic power if you are
not a member of the ruling class).
....because this is how the royal family
did acquire the Kingdom, and these are the things they did to ensure
that the power remain within the family.
While the monarchy was forced to hand over the control of the
country to a democratically elected government, the monarchy would
immediately re-take control of the country if he/she could, and at the
first possible opportunity. Just by allowing the royal family to be
regarded as such, is to allow them the possibility of returning to
power and for all these invalid practices to recommence.
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