Why we need Sir Roger Scruton's true conservatism

[@Omulosi]

The foundational conservative principle for Scruton is membership / belonging / identity: or as he frames it in The Meaning of Conservatism "transcendent bonds of allegiance". That's why conservatism can't be tied to any economic doctrine. Indeed that book was written as a warning against the ascendancy of economic liberalism or 'free market' ideology on the political right. His conservatism is intellectually closer to socialism than liberal individualism. Which no doubt will astound many 'conservatives' who imagine themselves engaged in a struggle for individual freedom against the overbearing state. This is what he wrote in the preface to the third edition twenty years after its original publication: **I sought to distinguish conservatism from economic liberalism and also to counter the Conservative Party’s emphasis on free markets and economic growth. Conservatism, as I describe it, involves the attempt to perpetuate a social organism, through times of unprecedented change. Organisms can be cured by growth; but they can also be killed by it. And that, briefly, is what we are now witnessing, not in England only, but throughout the Western hemisphere.**

[@luciavanegas3458]

the world has lost an unparalleled philosopher and extraordinary man

[@JUstVzlaChicoORG]

Alto Respeto para el gran Sir Roger 2020

[@ElizabethKautzmann]

🙏🏻✝️ ℣. Requiem æternam dona ei Domine ℟. Et lux perpetua luceat ei ℣. Requiescat in pace. ℟. Amen. ℣. Eternal rest, grant unto him, O LORD, ℟. And let perpetual light shine upon him/her (them). ℣. May he rest in peace. ℟. Amen.

[@JUstVzlaChicoORG]

Viva Venezuela Libre !!! Libertad para Venezuela 2020

[@perperson199]

RIP