POS 210 Chapter Notes -Rein, Totalitarianism, Proletariat
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To be a conserv ative one must first have somet hing that one wants to conserve: property, wealth, custo m s, status, power. Thus conserva tive s are those who are usually in positions or in posses sion of property, wealth, power, status and simply want to keep things as they are. Some conserv atives think that conserv a tis m is not an ideology and is anti ideolo g y . In other words, they do not see that all political proble m s can be solved by referring to theory and reason. This would see m to make the m at least anti liberal and mayb e anti ideological. But this is not an argu m e n t we need to take up here, becaus e conserva tis m does hold the elem e n t s we have identified as making up an ideology.
