He repurposed Fascist gangs to safeguard rail cargo from thieves. He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude (“drain the swamp”) by firing more than 35,000 civil servants. He knew that citizens were fed up with a bureaucracy that seemed to grow bigger and less efficient each year, so he insisted on daily roll calls in ministry offices and berated employees for arriving late to work or taking long lunches. “With this warning, Mussolini demanded and was given authority to do just about whatever he wanted but his initial priority, surprisingly, was good government. The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. All that is left is the core proposition itself - backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl dr. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.Īs the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.įor millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.Ĭonservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism but it does not yet exist. No other political philosophy actually exists by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. “There is no such thing as liberalism - or progressivism, etc.
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