Succession crisis in the monarchy

Succession crisis in the monarchy

As a political scientist, I am grateful for the invitation to participate in this conference on a complex sociological phenomenon that, certainly, cannot be reduced to just a material and formal aspect of analysis, however, I want to highlight the material political aspect that concerns the essence of the form of analysis. politically legitimize any form of government in any and all times and spaces where the nation organization is transformed into the organization of a national State with all its institutions of governance and governance that make them legitimate for the ruling elite and for the masses, whether these masses are composed of: subjects, citizens, residents, taxpayers, slaves, servants whatever the political or economic regime.

What is seen in this struggle for imperial power is the intra elite justification of legitimacy that guarantees the acceptance of the power of the emperor whose ritual begins with heredity and the matrilineal line of descent, and this rule begins at some point in the past, whose construction in the imaginary it begins with the descent from the heavens of a first divine initiate initiate divinified from the first and indisputable patriarch and who is the archetype of the race unquestionably representative of the creator of the universe and the race, from then on no one could question his authority and his actions.

What happens in this narrative is that the paths and rules for preserving the perfection of the succession line are made up of many traps and details constructed to provide alternatives that may give the consorts the opportunity to envision an accepted alternative to circumvent the only rule which is the line of succession given by birth and interrupted only by death, then the only solution to the crisis of legitimacy is the way out of the succession path by death, and it was this sinister alternative that triggered the succession crisis in the monarchy.

The only way out in a monarchy for alternation in power is the death of the monarch and the birth of the firstborn, it is the announced and inescapable tragedy of monarchies.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político