[lbo-talk] The Conservative Mind

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Mon Oct 3 11:23:03 PDT 2011


2011/10/3 Ferenc Molnar <ferenc_molnar at hotmail.com>:
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> Conservative thought is always parasitic and mimetic, always reacting to left movements which are always original and liberatory? A rather rigid and self-regarding dualism, wouldn't you say?  And one that is not convincing to me especially when Robin himself cites Edmund Burke as both the father of the conservative movement and a foundational theorist of Romanticism.

But wasn't Burke reacting to the French Revo?

Joanna



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