Classical Conservatism: Difference between revisions

[[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism<br>

[[File:Cball-UK.png]] British National Social Capitalism [[File:NatSocCap.png]] ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism, somewhat)<br>

[[File:Libclasscon2.png]] Libertarian Classical Conservatism ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism)<br>

([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism)<br>

{{Info|Nationalists}} ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism, [[File:Bulnes.png]] Manuel Bulnes Thought)<br>

[[File:Rightunity-yellow.png|link=:Category:Right Unity]] [[:Category:Right Unity|{{Color|#F5F5A9|'''Right'''}}{{Color|#93DAF8|'''Unity'''}}]] ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism)<br>

{{Info|Libertarians}} ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism)<br>

{{Info|Welfarists}} ([[File:EnochPowell.png]] Powellism) <br>

*[[File:EnochPowell.png]] [[National Conservatism|Enoch Powell]] (1912-1998) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK

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*[[File:EnochPowell.png]] '''Powellism''' {{Collapse|

**[[File:AntiAm.png]] Anti-Americanism

**[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism (After 1947)

**[[File:Antifash2.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]] (Self-proclaimed)

**[[File:Antimultcult.png]] Anti-Immigration

**[[File:Hibernophobia.png]] Anti-Irish Republicanism (In Northern Ireland at least)

**[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[Centralism|British Unionism]]

**[[File:Civlibert.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism]]

**[[File:ClassyConlib.png]] [[Conservative Liberalism]]

**[[File:Euroscept.png]] Hard Euroscepticism

**[[File:Isolationist.png]] [[Isolationism]] (After 1947)

**[[File:Libclasscon2.png]] [[Libertarian Conservatism]]

**[[File:Neobert.png]] [[Neo-Libertarianism|Libertarian Imperialism]] (Before 1947)

**[[File:LiberMon.png]] [[Libertarian Monarchism]]

**[[File:Monet.png]] [[Monetarism]]

**[[File:CONNATCLASS.png]] [[National Conservatism]]

**[[File:MidTory.png]] [[National Liberalism]]

**[[File:Natlib.png]] [[National Libertarianism]]

**[[File:NatSocCap.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|National Social Capitalism]]

**[[File:IFL Partyball.png]] [[Nazism|Nazism]] (Accused, denied) <ref>In addition to his controversial views on immigration, Powell was also arrested during WW2 as a suspected spy for singing the ‘Horst Wessel Lied’</ref>

**[[File:ToryPopulism.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]]

**[[File:AES.png]] [[Capitalist Communism|Soft Pro-Sovietism/Russophilia]] [[File:Soft Russophilia.png]]

**[[File:SyndieSamCon.png]] [[Syndicalism|Trade Unionism]]

**[[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism]]

They also place a strong emphasis on [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|authority]] and [[File:Trad.png]] [[Traditionalism|tradition]] among other things. Civically speaking, the ideology can vary between moderately authoritarian (most ClassCons) to somewhat libertarian (Powell, for example).

Despite being culturally right, they are generally neither [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] (with the exception of Enoch Powell) nor [[File:Reactcross.png]] [[Reactionaryism|reactionary]] (although the latter is debatable).

===[[File:EnochPowell.png]] '''Powellism'''===

'''Powellism''' is an economically right-wing (but also [[File:Welf.png]] [[Welfarism|welfarist]]), [[File:ModTrad.png]] culturally center-right, and highly [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalistic]] ideology, based on the political beliefs of former [[File:Con-t.png]] [[Conservatism|Conservative]] and later [[Protestant Theocracy|Ulster Unionist]] MP, Enoch Powell.

Powell was most well-known from his [[File:Antimultcult.png]] anti-immigration rhetoric (in particular his warnings of ‘Rivers of Blood’ if immigration continued ‘en masse’). He was also a [[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism|White Nationalist]]- claiming that those descended from Caribbean and Asian immigrants did ‘not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.’

Although he had previously held [[File:Imp.png]] [[Imperialism|imperialist]] views (with an ambition to become [[File:Cball-British India.png]] Viceroy of India), upon [[File:Cball-India.png]] Indian independence he decided the entire [[File:BritishEmpire.png]] British Empire must go alongside it. Britain should, in the eyes of Powell, return to the period of ‘[[File:Isolation.png]] [[Isolationism|splendid isolation]]’. He opposed Britain being involved in international organisations and alliances, particularly with the [[File:Cball-US.png]] [[American Model|United States]], which he accused of destroying the British Empire and seeking to re-unify [[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] Ireland in order to ensure its membership of [[File:Cball-NATO.png]] [[Neoconservatism|NATO]]. Powell’s anti-Americanism was so strong that he even saw the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]] as a potential ally for Britain in countering American influence in Europe (despite Powell himself being [[File:Cap.png]] pro-capitalist).

As mentioned above, Powell was generally pro-capitalist and pro-free market in the sphere of economics. He believed that business interests should be looked after by the people that best understood them – in Powell’s view, this was businessmen and not politicians. He was the first major UK politician to call for de-nationalision of public services in the 1960s. However, while Powell was very much a [[File:Monet.png]] [[Monetarism|monetarist]], at the same time he also supported the welfare state and [[File:SyndieSamCon.png]] [[Syndicalism|trade unions]].

With regards to social views, Powell was was conservative in terms of his support for the maintenance of [[File:LiberMon.png]] [[Libertarian Monarchism|monarchy]], [[File:Anglican Theocracyf.png]] [[Protestant Theocracy|established religion]] and [[File:Arist.png]] [[Aristocracy|hereditary peers]] in governance. However, on other issues he was liberal/libertarian- he opposed the death penalty and corporal punishment while supporting no-fault divorce and other aspects of the ‘[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism|permissive society]]’ established by [[File:UKLab.png]] [[Social Democracy|Labour]] Governments. He also voted to decriminalise [[File:Gay.png]] homosexuality as he did not regard "it as a proper area for the criminal law to operate".

*[[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism]] - Marvelous, but if you will, please simmer down with the nationalism; Enoch Powell was very exemplary and excellent if I do say.