Yes, there was a moment in very beginning about the duke carrying out executions personally and making his sons watch, because that's his responsibility.

Eh, some methods, like collective lynching, are about sharing the guilt.

Is that a GoT reference?

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Despotism refers to a person in power making unilateral decisions,

Yeah, that too, so?

it is no means of describing any system of government.

Why is that?

Define communism, I’ll let you once again look it up.

Why would I? That wouldn't change that I'm right. You seem to think that I have to prove something or dispute something with you to be right. I don't.

Also a hint - anybody can come up with any kind of definition. If I look it up, then what? Somebody you consider authoritative has approved a definition? Well, it's one model you like, I may not, so why would I bother?

It doesn't matter if I do. Your opinion on whether I have proven anything is irrelevant, neither is me proving anything to you.

You have the wrong attitude.

Despotism is an absolute monarchy where technically there's only one free man, the monarch, and all the subjects, including nobles or whatever, are his property. There's no contracts or something to this. The monarch's power is delegated as they wish to the state apparatus of whatever kind they choose. That'd be Russia since Peter or, say, Safavid Persia, and frankly a few German states in the new age despite sporting feudal symbolic.

Feudalism is a system of vassal-suzerain and allied relationships, contractual and not even that centralized, as a feudal entity can even be vassal to multiple other entities (games like CK get this wrong, which makes, say, Denmark there less fun than it was) and have its own various contractual ties. With feudalism every person's status is complex, there are individual privileges and obligations to every entity.

Feudalism is much more sophisticated than a despotic monarchy. IMHO it's the main reason Europeans dominate this planet.

EDIT: By the way, Decembrists paid a lot of attention to that difference, if we get back to Russian history.

According to my knowledge it is just as useful a term as feudalism, describing a specific system.

You have nonides what you’re talking about.

Buddy, you are a communist , a flatearther from economics, an etherium proponent from economics, a homeopathic doctor from economics.

And what you wrote is illiterate bullshit. Listen for once what people who are not from your sect say on things.

I could care

I mostly meant that Russia's history since Peter is often described as self-colonization.

I'm pretty stupid, but for what you claim my intelligence would have to be negative. It'd have to be some kind of "antimatter intelligence", and your political alignment is the closest to inventing that.