> Just to draw out another paradox, the free market people are right when they say Socialism owes much of its intellectual roots to Conservatism. English socialists were very close - Ruskin's Unto this Last was required reading for all, though it was feudalistic mumbo-jumbo. Marx and Engels were both keen readers of Carlyle (whose essay on Chartism sets out the essential argument of Marx's critique of liberal democracy before Marx does) - and of course their great inspiration in Germany, Hegel was reconciling liberal and conservative thought, with a philosophy that embraced both the liberal atomism, and the conservative wholism as different moments in the forward movement of Spirit.
Yeah - Raymond Williams' Culture and Society is all about this (in English history, not so much the Hegel).
Cheers, Mike