Conservative forces as a political worldview

The origins of conservatism as a political outlook were laid at the end of the 18th century. This is not surprising if you look at the history of this time in terms of social development. The industrial revolution, which began more than a century ago, led to serious changes in the economic system and social organization. Here we have in mind, first, the formation and development Capitalist relations based on trade and competition, and secondly, the complication of the stratification of society itself: the appearance of such categories in it as the bourgeoisie and the working class. The old feudal system of subsistence farming was dying, and with it, its values were dying. They were replaced by new ideas, developed mainly by modern thinkers: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Charles Montesquieu and others.

The Great French Revolution and the Conservative Forces

Actually, this event became the highest revolutionary for the historical development of Europe. For the first time, the idea of French educators was realized about the legitimacy of the people's uprising against the "bad" monarch. The personality of the latter has finally ceased to be inviolable. The revolution became a precedent for all other peoples of the continent and gave birth to the formation of national civil societies. At the same time, the Great French Revolution Dark pages in their history. First of all, this is the Robebelier terror. The answer to the mass repression was the famous work of the Englishman Edmund Burke. In his Reflections on the French Revolution, he focused on the negatives and horrors that she brought to the multitude of people of that era. It was this pamphlet that was the beginning of conservatism as an ideological trend, which offered to resist the unrestrained impulses of the liberals. During the XIX and in part of the XX century, he received a significant theoretical substantiation of his fundamental foundations.

Basic ideas of the current

Actually, the very concept of "conservatism" comes from the Latin word "converso" - to preserve. Conservative forces and advocate for the universal preservation of traditional order and values: social, political and spiritual. So, in the domestic politics social traditions are upheld. This is the national culture, patriotism, centuries of morality, the primacy of state interests over personal ones, the authoritative position of traditional institutions, such as family, school, church, the continuity of social development (which, in fact, is the preservation of traditions). The work of conservative forces in foreign policy assumes a stake on the creation of a strong state built on a hierarchical system. We welcome the priority development of the country's military potential, the use of force in international relations, the preservation of historically traditional unions, protectionism in foreign trade.

Neoconservatism

Conservative forces of the new order fully accept the idea of the need for development. However, they are in favor of cautious and unhurried reforms. Examples of supporters of this policy can serve as US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Conservative and non-conservative forces

It should be noted that conservatism is a combination of political trends. Fascism, for example, is also a completely conservative trend, which puts state power and greatness at the center of all. The opponents of the conservatives are a whole range of alternative currents, left and right: liberals, in opposition to which the conservative forces once formed, socialists, communists, and so on.