[lbo-talk] Conservatism

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Sep 16 10:45:06 PDT 2009


Alan Rudy writes 'I guess the synthesis is the success of utilitarian and libertarian political economies generate processes of differentiation and homogenization that produce romanticism and fantasicism on the cultural right.'

If you mean that the market creates problems to which romantic conservatism offers an imaginary solution, then I agree with that. You only have to think of the difficulties Conservatives over here in the UK had with family policy. They would lecture people that there was 'no such thing as a job for life' and then bemoan family breakdown. But is is pretty plain that when people lose their jobs, and have to go looking for work in other parts of the country, that that puts strain on families.



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