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To: Truthsearcher

Standard Euro conservative. It all derives from “etatisme”, the primacy of state control, that was invented in the days of absolute monarchy. You can blame Louis XIV I suppose.

The modern version, which included creating the “welfare state”, has been generally credited to Bismarck, but the general concept of state power over the private economy was long since universal in Europe. And it was conservative even at that time. To find “true”, non-statist conservatives back then you would have to go back to feudal times. Libertarian “liberal” lassier-faire characters were radical. Or American.

But that all happened long before socialism was even an idea.

Categorizing such things as “socialism” is ahistorical.


54 posted on 06/10/2024 3:14:14 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

You want to call it statism or collectivism, go ahead, it’s the same thing.


56 posted on 06/10/2024 11:06:43 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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