I can understand the argument of communism vs. democracy, because communism intends to keep everybody even and make them contribute evenly, whereas democracy allows them to choose their own level of contribution and intends to pay them according to what they contribute. That's really more of a debate of personal motivations towards labor and riches than anything else. .... I DON'T understand how anybody would prefer Monarchy, though, because it's a complete acquiescence of man's individual authority over his environment, no apologies, no regards, no receipts and no returns. I fail to see how anybody besides the Monarch and his Besties could possibly benefit from that. In the old days, the "peasants" would support a Monarch only because he was freeing them from the hands of another, crueler Monarch, or from the hands of the Elite/Noble Classes, who were persecuting and abusing them at the time. If that's not the case, history tends to show that the "peasant" class was never even consulted in the change of regime, but just kind of plowed into place by infantries and cavalries, and cut down if they consented. From what little I know of Russia's history, I think there was a lot of this, the cutting down of the peasant class by the military.