She thinks that they're in an autonomous collective but Dennis is more paranoid than that. And he believes that they're being exploited in some kind of dictatorship. An autocracy is basically a dictatorship with one person in absolute power. A self-perpetuating one means that this system allows itself to continue, all right? He's about to go off on another rant, but his wife stops him saying something like, oh, there you go again, bringing class into it. So people get rather tired of hearing people in arguments referring to the class system, but it always happens.
[The Constitutional Peasants Scene] Here's another episode about Monty Python's Flying Circus, and in this one we're going to be covering some very interesting topics, such as medieval history, old myths legends & folklore, the British monarchy, marxism and radical politics. In terms of language we're going to look at some old fashioned formal poetic language, some political vocabulary and also some intonation and sentence stress, and we'll be doing all of that while understanding and hopefully enjoying a funny scene from a classic British comedy film. So, you really are getting everything in this episode (well, maybe not
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