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FIrst, serfs never led any revolutions. Even Ilija Gregorić and Matija Gubec didn't aim to overthrow the system. Despite bullshit spread by Marxist historians, serfs in that rebellion never aimed to overthrow the system - they were just fed up with conflicts between nobility, and the rebellion...

Except, they did. Reason why colonate and later feudalism were far more successful systems than slavery was precisely that peasants were motivated to produce as much as possible, as landlord took a percentage of produce: which meant that a peasant producing more produce would benefit the both...

Serfdom is NOT slavery:

There is a war going on against the white people:

Yes. With slaves, person itself was a property. Serf was not a property himself. Big fucking difference. For one, a noble could not just go and kill a serf the way slaveowner could with a slave. Secondly, serfs could not be bought, sold or traded individually. This meant that serfs had a...

"Wrong" part was referring to your inference that peasants - be it coloni or serfs - were somehow similar to slaves. They weren't, not even close. Majority of feudal monarchies didn't in fact have hereditary power in terms of offices of state. Hell, even kings were subject to election in many...

I am aware of Viking trade. Everything Romans could do that medieval Europeans couldn't came down to administrative organization. And that came down to not having Muslims for neighbours and being able to maintain centralized state, as I already described.

European steel was far better quality than what Romans made, and only improved over time. Even in the early Middle Ages, Europe had better steel than e.g. Japan. Problem was again in administration, as large-scale utilization of iron sources was simply not possible. As for Damascus steel, that...

And wrong. Feudalism developed from the Roman system of colonate, which was a system where a landowner owned land and then loaned it out to landless families in exchange for a proportion of whatever the land produced. Literally an early version of capitalism. The "forcing families to stick to...

They fubared nothing. Society in general and Europe in particular advanced about as quickly as it could. In fact, medieval European monarchies advanced far more quickly in both technological and social terms than Roman Republic did - in large part because feudalism removed most of the...

Nonsense. German Empire was the technological leader of Europe in late 19th century. Britain and Germany were about equal in industrialization, and both were far ahead of the republican France. Russia began to modernize under the Tsars. Then the World War I came, and caused a revolution - first...

I am not saying that position is useless, I am saying that political structures of any society are far more complex than people tend to assume, and that monarchy especially cannot be reduced to "just monarch" in a way that you seem to prefer. I mean, if monarch is useless because of what I had...

That is literally cartoon-level binary logic. Monarch may be the head guy, but even absolute monarchs never had absolute authority. Interests and power groups exist in any and every society, which means that no monarch, or even a dictator, has absolute authority in reality. And traditional...

And again with mythology. None of the royals wanted First World War (that is what I assume you are referring to). Kaiser and Tsar were engaged in attempts to prevent the war until literally the last minute, and Austro-Hungarian Emperor also did what he could to prevent the war. It was their...

Elected politicians also mooch off of their subjects, with difference being that you get a new set of vampires every four - or if you are lucky, eight - years, and that they literally don't care about the future. As I pointed out: it wasn't monarchs who started World War I. United States, which...

Depends. Absolute monarchs were not a good thing, but World War I at least was not actually monarchs' fault. It was neither the first nor the last global conflict started by Europe... and you know when Europe stopped starting global conflicts? When it let go of its colonies. Monarchy was never...

So then the problem comes back to them having power. That mostly comes down to impression and "follow the leader" mentality. In Croatia at least, there was that assumption that we will become a new Switzerland the moment we abandon Communism and embrace democracy. And once that failed, our...

Some ideas however are very good at destroying everything. Agreed. I'd say immigration is more of a symptom. Greatest problem is that basically all generations since World War II had been raised to be self-hating autoracists. People who have no pride cannot even think of defending...

And how do we get such governments? Voting doesn't work, because votes can be stolen, and politicians can be bought. Modernity began with the French Revolution, at least by the definition I am using. "Some" families will not save the civilization, however. Problem is, such zealots seem to...

Agreed. Although problem is, government will always decide to use it against the people it sees as a problem. They are not unrelated, they are one of the reasons why leftism / progressivism is so successful. Families basically don't exist anymore, and literally everything we have come up with...