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DO CONSERVATIVES PLACE SOCIAL STABILITY BEFORE ECONOMIC FREEDOM?
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DO CONSERVATIVES PLACE SOCIAL STABILITY BEFORE ECONOMIC FREEDOM? Conservatism has been concerned with both social stability and economic freedom although the balance between the two depends on the dominant tradition at any point in time. The concern with social stability grows out of the belief in an organic society, which highlights the need to protect and strengthen the fragile fabric of society. Social stability is social harmony and equality of status between the rich who have a duty to help the poor and the poor. One-nation conservatism which endorses social welfare and economic intervention on the grounds that social and political stability require that economic inequality is contained. Burke was a traditional conservative who believed in the organic state and therefore also believed in collectivism. Traditional conservatives are motivated by the organic state. They do not put individual before society - they believe in collectivism. If they believe we are...
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