Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Entrust, Preemptive War, Edmund Burke
15 Oct 2018
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Industry is dehumanizing and alienating: commerce and capitalism destroy culture and spirituality, worried about commercial activity and reject pursuit of profit and material wealth (consumer capitalism as we now call it) In britain during the 1800s had two dominant parties, the whigs (liberals, 19th century conservatism in the united states: first strand: cultural conservatives reject rationalist pursuit of perfection and harmful effects of capitalism, second strand: economic conservatives defend liberal society and laissez- faire capitalism. Communism (from 1917: conservatives reject, progress (represented by communism where there is this incredible optimism about human happiness and well-being if we remove capitalism, perfectibility (communist belief that we can perfect human beings and human society. Communism is about revolution, conservatism is about gradual change if any change: planning (capitalism is anarchic, people have choice. Communists say we should plan how economies work but conservatives say we should reject this in the name of basic economic liberties)
