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Understanding Conservatism and Tradition
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To understand conservatism we must understand how conservatives differ from leftists and libertarians. Basic oppositions in politics usually have to do with fundamental issues of social organization. Will king or parliament be supreme? Pope or emperor? Local community, nation, or transnational bureaucracy? Such issues are as important for us now as they were for the Cavaliers and Roundheads. So a simple explanation for the big divisions in political thought today is that they have to do with differing ideas of how society should be organized. Each way of running things creates a party that favors it.
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Conservatism -
5/1/2011 8:43 PM
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