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Conservatism Divisions - Coggle Diagram

- - - - If interests of newly enriched were not integrated into poltical stature, there was danger of them being lost to property-less forces with no will for evolution.
- - - - Traditional conservatives had clearly endorsed a society complicit in a rapidly declining economy, a bloated welfare state and a permissive society.
      - Lacking in both moral and formal authority, struggling to resist socialism.
  - - - Aim of salvation of individual liberty.
    - - Aim of restoration of authority, and national identity.
      - Reagan and Thatcher
      - Murray Dependency Culture of the Underclass
  - - - The combination of neoconservatism and neoliberalism enfolds a series of fundamental contradictions.
        
        It could be said that neoconservatism and neoliberalism compliment each other in three ways.
        
        Kristol observed that a New Right Conservative was a 'liberal mugged by reality'.
        Neoliberals with their optimistic view of human nature fail to anticipate the tensions arising from a free-market capitalist society
        
        To achieve low taxation liberals want, they would have to reduce dramatically levels of state spending on welfare. For this to be viable, there has to be alternative sources of support. Neoconservatives would claim restoration of traditional morality and an end to permissive society.
        
        Neoconservatives wish to strengthen the state by reinforcing police, security services and armed forces. This requires extra funding. Neoliberals argue this would be easier once state spending is reduced following privatisation and welfare reform.
      - Neoliberals wish to roll back the frontiers of the state, neoconservatives wish to roll forward the frontiers.
        
        Thatcher's government promotion of privatisation and restriction of trade unions and local authorities respectively.
      - Neoliberals wish to advance individual liberty but neoconservatives are prepared to restrict it.
        
        Thatcher's commitment to tax cuts and extension of police stop and search powers.
      - Neoliberals are relaxed about immigration, neoconservatives are more wary.
        
        Rand saw it as a side effect of free markets and individual choice. Thatcher believed it swamped traditional communities and culture
      - Size of state- Minarchist v Enlarged
- - - - All ‘members’ of the same national family, with revolutionary politics an attack on the nation itself.
        
        The nation-state was something all classes had a vested interest in defending.
      - Disraeli argued that nation’s aristocracy had a paternalistic duty.
        
        Social progress could be achieved harmoniously.
        ‘The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.’
        
        However, they did not advocate for mere philanthropy.
        They endorsed state-sponsored social reform , thereby distinguishing conservatism from the minimal state principles of classical liberalism.
        
        Laissez faire individualism and class-based socialism as the threats to one-nation.
        
        Tempered the effects of laissez faire capitalism supposedly on behalf of the nation’s working classes.
        
        Artisan Dwellings Act 1875 restricting the freedoms of landlords.
        
        Imposed tariffs and import controls confirming traditional conservatism’s ambivalent attitude to free-market capitalism.