OutlineThe LLQ is the pre-conservatism quadrant,
an ideology in the making. Converting loosely
joined, primitive populations into an integrated society
with hope of order could not wait for prescription, usage,
history. Primitive governments needed trust in order to
spread trust. And this required appeals to the transempirical
worlds of mystery and charisma. The ULQ is the
essence of Burkean conservatism as a recognized body of
political thought. Burke rejected as radical such Lockean,
Rousseauean formulations as natural right and natural
law in favor of law as governance itself, resting on established
and proven earthly authority. Thus, on the basis of
trust born of convention, tradition and prudence, a hierarchy
would govern and its regime would be aristocracy.
The URQ has been for two centuries the quadrant of
organized, self-conscious conservatism.
The doctrinal/educational emphasis was the strength and
the weakness of the conservative parties. While Socialist
parties combined doctrine with parliamentary control,
conservatives, including Catholic conservatives, resisted
explicitly organized politics because of restraints on their
organizational life coming from religious centers, especially
the Catholic church. Although a tendency or culminating
point in all four quadrants, conservatism comes
closest to genuine radicalism in the LRQ. The purpose or
goal of conservative thought in this quadrant is to build a
nation. Nation becomes nation-state whenever the components
of nationalism (Folk as race and Folk as nation;
Roman culture as nation; heroes and sacrifice as nation)
legitimizes the claim to rule. In its most radical form, this
type of conservatism has been known as fascism.
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