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“At the heart of New Right thought, lies the paradox of libertarian and authoritarian belief”. To what extent do you support this quotation?
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"At the heart of New Right thought, lies the paradox of libertarian and authoritarian belief". To what extent do you support this quotation? The New Right is a form of conservatism which formed in the 1980s and took a very different view of elements of society such as family, education and crime. In the United Kingdom, New Right more specifically refers to a strand of Conservatism that the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan influenced. Thatcher's style of New Right ideology, known as Thatcherism was heavily influenced by the work of Friedrich Hayek (in particular the book, The Road to Serfdom). Margaret Thatcher said in her 1995 memoirs, The Downing Street Years; "The most powerful critique of socialist planning and the socialist state which I read and to which I have returned so often is F.A.Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom'". They were ideologically committed to neo-liberalism as well as being...
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