CONSERVATISM 1
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- Created on: 09-06-19 19:23
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- Is conservatism 'ruling-class' ideology?
- NO
- The prime purpose of the conservative state - the maintenance of order - is one with appeal to all sections of society.
- Conservatism's love of habit, custom and familiarity has echoes within all sections of society.
- Traditional conservatism has frequently promoted the interests of the poor in order to ensure the maintenance 'one nation'.
- New Right conservatism is meritocratic, not aristocratic, identifying with ambitious and talented individuals from all backgrounds.
- The conservative wish to avoid revolution is altruistic - during periods of revolutionary upheaval it is often society's most vulnerable members who suffer most.
- YES
- It was a claim regularly made by both fundamentalist socialists such as Beatrice Webb and revisionist socialists like Anthony Crossland.
- Those making such claims cited Burke - the 'father of conservatism' - who attacked the egalitarianism of the French Revolution while defending aristocratic rule.
- Since Burke, conservatives have always defended property, privilege and inequality.
- Conservativepaternalism is merely an attempt to make inequality and elitism palatable to the majority.
- The stress on tradition and piecemeal change conspires to prevent radical change, which inherently ruling-class interests.
- NO
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