But the king's interest in moderniding change was also limited. He did not want power pass to the nation-state, as had happened in Europe when to see this would push absolutism had broken up. Any move in direction the king into relative conservatism, and away from the more radical members of Young Siam. But like the European monarchs, he unwittingly set in train a process which could not be stopped: royal absolutism in Siam would also act as midwife to capitalist society and the nation-state, born from the dynastic state.