Jonah Goldberg
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Conservatism is a comfort in the idea that man is flawed, the world is imperfect, youth is fleeting, life isn't fair, and we should be grateful for the progress we've made and humble about what kind of changes are possible.
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Conservatism is bound up in patriotism because it expresses love for what our country is (just as we love those around us warts and all for what they are), rather than loving it for some hope for what it could be (which, if directed toward a person, would be lust).
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Conservatism is, in terms of economics, is being comfortable with the contradiction that markets necessarily generate material inequalities because (so long as the system that produces them is fair and open) that's how life works.
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Conservatism is the conviction that the yardstick against which human progress is measured should not be some unattainable utopian future, but the knowable and real facts of our common past.
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Fascism is a totalitarian system in which any rival identity is part of the "problem" and therefore defined as the enemy.
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Fascism is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure.
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The French Revolution is the first fascist revolution on account of its effort to turn politics into a religion (whereby the people is divinized and the person is rendered an afterthought).
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The French Revolution is the first fascist revolution because of its effort to turn politics into a religion. (In this the revolutionaries were inspired by Rousseau, whose concept of the general will divinized the people while rendering the person an afterthought.)
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The French Revolution is the first fascist revolution owing to its effort to turn politics into a religion.
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The General will is essentially the fascist transformation of politics into a religion; the divination of the people at the expense of the person.
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The General will is a concept that formed the intellectual basis for all modern totalitarianisms.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is responsible for divinizing the people (in his idea of the general will) while rendering the person an afterthought.