![]() ![]() Totalitarianism: seeks to direct all facets of a state’s culture-art, education, religion, the economy, and politics-in the interests of the state (lacked resources).Rule of absolute monarchs was not totalitarian.Absolute monarchs also maintained permanent standing armies (secret police).The key difference between seventeenth-century bureaucracies and their predecessors was that they served the state as represented by the king (public or state positions and not supposed to use their positions for private gain).Bureaucracies were posed of career officials appointed/accountable to the king.The key to the power and success of absolute monarchs lay in how they solved their financial problems and the absolutist solution was the creation of new state bureau-cracies that forced taxes ever higher or devised alternative methods or raising revenue.Absolute kings secured the cooperation of the nobility, the greatest threat to monarch.In the absolutist state, sovereignty is embodied in the person of the ruler and absolute kings claimed to rule by divine right, (they were responsible to God alone). ![]()
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