Was Golden Liberty the worst government system world has ever seen?

>>3395385
Technically Poland was "a noblemen democracy" with elected kings (the election looked like pic related, all neblemen could vote):
>The countries with the highest proportion of nobles were Castile (probably 10%), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (15% of an 18th-century population of 800,000), Spain (722,000 in 1768 which was 7–8% of the entire population) and other countries with lower percentages, such as Russia in 1760 with 500,000–600,000 nobles (2–3% of the entire population), and pre-revolutionary France where there were no more than 300,000 prior to 1789, which was 1% of the population (although some scholars believe this figure is an overestimate). In 1718 Sweden had between 10,000 and 15,000 nobles, which was 0.5% of the population. In Germany 0.01%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility#Europe

>Perhaps the closest parallels to Poland's 'Noble Democracy' can be found outside Europe altogether ? in America ? among the slave-owning aristocracy of The South, where slave-owning democrats and founding fathers of the USA such as Thomas Jefferson or George Washington had many values in common with the reformist noblemen of the Commonwealth.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Liberty
>In theory at least, all Polish noblemen were social equals. Also in theory, they were legal peers. Those who held 'real power' dignities were more privileged but these dignities were not hereditary. Those who held honorary dignities were higher in 'ritual' hierarchy but these dignities were also granted for a lifetime. Some tenancies became hereditary and went with both privilege and titles. Nobles who were not direct barons of the Crown but held land from other lords were only peers "de iure".

>>3395398
>The poorest enjoyed the same rights as the wealthiest magnate. The exceptions were a few symbolically privileged families such as the Radziwiłł, Lubomirski and Czartoryski, who sported honorary aristocratic titles recognized in Poland or received from foreign courts, such as "Prince" or "Count". (see also The Princely Houses of Poland). All other szlachta simply addressed each other by their given name or as "Sir Brother" (Panie bracie) or the feminine equivalent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlachta
>The political system of the Rzeczpospolita was regarded by the nobility as the best in the world, and the Polish Sejm as (factually[17]) the oldest. The system was frequently compared to Republican Rome and to the Greek polis – though each of these eventually surrendered to imperial rule or to tyrants. The Henrician Articles were considered to be the foundation of the system. Every attempt to infringe on these laws was treated as a great crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatism

>>3395385
what was so wrong with the system, and how is it worse than communism?

>>3395409
I dont know, what could be wrong with system where vatnik that lives in mud hut has the same right as noble that owns several castles and foreign powers can pay to poor nobles to vote in their favor?

>>3395409

It was extremely conservative and regressive, it actively kept trade to a minimum simply to spite the merchant classes, and actively weakened the central authority, making it impossible to raise the kinds of armies the state needed to defend itself.

>>3395385

Not THE worst but it was pretty terrible.

>>3395424
sounds shit, but under communism, the noble would be sharing vatnik's mudhut and the castle would be replaced with an eternally unfinished commiblock

>>3395452
ebin