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British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the Conservative Party of Britain, in the 1840s began a project to create what became known in Britain as One Nation conservatism and also known as progressive conservatism, by addressing the issues of economic inequality that progressives demanded action on, while also maintaining a conservative commitment to upholding order and cultural traditions. After Disraeli rose to power, the Conservative government put through social welfare legislation. Prior to his ascendance to power, Disraeli as a member of the Conservative Party, criticized the party at that time for failing recognize the important issue that social division between the extreme rich and extreme poor threatened the possibility of social unrest and disorder that at its worst could result in extreme class violence like that of the Reign of Terror period of the French Revolution.
The concern over social unrest held by Disraeli was addressed amidst radical movements arising calling for the working class to have a revolution to overthrow the wealthy and the capitalist economy they benefited from, first with anarchists and then several years after this quote in 1848 communism arose in Britain with the German economists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels living in Britain publishing The Communist Manifesto that year.
Disraeli's stance became the platform of the Conservative Party when Disraeli became the party's leader and onward, influencing many conservative figures abroad who emulated these policies, such as German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, amongst many others. In Britian, One Nation conservatism remained the standing policy until Margaret Thatcher moved the party away from that towards neoliberal conservatism (or neoconservatism) that declared that government expenditures needed to be dramatically cut for Britain to balance its budgets and to repay debt, including through substantially reduce government intervention in the economy as well as substantially reducing the size of the welfare state. However in Britain, appeals to Disraeli's One Nation concept are currently being made by both the Conservative Party (that has sought to distance itself from the controversial neoliberal elements of the Thatcher era) and the Labour Party, both contending to be considered Disraeli's proper heir in recognizing that economic inequality has to addressed to ensure the unity and stability of a country.
Original source that I copied the quote from: www.victorianweb.org/authors/d…
Note 3: I have posted this quote because it is a quote of an important historical figure. This is not posted here for political reasons, if people choose to support or use this image for political reasons, that is their decision and responsibility, not mine. With these points in mind, I will accept this image being included in any group interested in having this image.
The concern over social unrest held by Disraeli was addressed amidst radical movements arising calling for the working class to have a revolution to overthrow the wealthy and the capitalist economy they benefited from, first with anarchists and then several years after this quote in 1848 communism arose in Britain with the German economists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels living in Britain publishing The Communist Manifesto that year.
Disraeli's stance became the platform of the Conservative Party when Disraeli became the party's leader and onward, influencing many conservative figures abroad who emulated these policies, such as German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, amongst many others. In Britian, One Nation conservatism remained the standing policy until Margaret Thatcher moved the party away from that towards neoliberal conservatism (or neoconservatism) that declared that government expenditures needed to be dramatically cut for Britain to balance its budgets and to repay debt, including through substantially reduce government intervention in the economy as well as substantially reducing the size of the welfare state. However in Britain, appeals to Disraeli's One Nation concept are currently being made by both the Conservative Party (that has sought to distance itself from the controversial neoliberal elements of the Thatcher era) and the Labour Party, both contending to be considered Disraeli's proper heir in recognizing that economic inequality has to addressed to ensure the unity and stability of a country.
Original source that I copied the quote from: www.victorianweb.org/authors/d…
Note 1: Although contemporary Western usage of the word "progressive" may make the name of the political party he was in seem like an oxymoron, the meaning of "progressive" in the past had a broader usage. In the Conservative Party of Britain there were followers of Benjamin Disraeli's One Nation conservatism that supported insuring that the level of inequality between the rich and poor did not reach the point that would result in civil unrest breaking out from radicals agitating the lower classes. Also American President Theodore Roosevelt publicly called himself both a progressive and a conservative and advocated similar policies to Disraeli. Also these conservatives supported social welfare as a means to help people specifically during bad economic conditions, though by the 1970s and 1980s they came under political pressure for fiscal restraint on social welfare but they rejected more radical calls for drastic repeal of social welfare.
Note 2: Although contemporary Western usage of the words "conservative" and "liberal" have been used as opposed to each other in fact many self-described conservative movements are in fact conservative liberal and liberal conservative movements in that they promote core values of conservative and liberal political philosophies together. Therefore the tag about conservative liberalism, liberal conservatism, conservatism, conservative, liberalism, and liberal are all included in the tags.
Note 3: I have posted this quote because it is a quote of an important historical figure. This is not posted here for political reasons, if people choose to support or use this image for political reasons, that is their decision and responsibility, not mine. With these points in mind, I will accept this image being included in any group interested in having this image.
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The only question I would have would be this - What differences separate the 'conservatism' of the mid-19th Century and the 'conservatism' of today? Certainly there are differences. I mean, would we even consider Disraeli a Conservative today based on his positions?