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>be Edmund Burke
> advocate greater accountability for monarchy
> support Americans in war of indepencence
> spoke against company rule in India
> supported catholic emancipation when it was dangerous in england
> says may be jacobins should not guillotine every one they disagree with
> 210 years later Burke was a heacking reactionary proto fascist
> mfw

Is there anything gayer than Anglo "conservatism"?

They literally consider themselves moderate liberals.

All Jacobins should be exterminated.

>>11995931
The English Renaissance and Enlightenment both had a lot of really great writers and thinkers that we sometimes forget about these days.

>>11830839
I exclude communitarians and classical conservatives. unfortunately that's not very many people.

>>11814613
The Jacobins are unironically wrong, and France should never have killed the king. That's the whole point of conservatism, right? That's literally where it starts, with Burke. The idea is that ideas of liberty and progress had progressed to a certain point, and there was a beautiful balance, but the Jacobins took it too far in the other direction and ruined everything.

Basically we all need to have constitutional monarchies. That's proper conservatism right there.

>>11405511
Okay, well good. Not sure how many people exist between Smith and Marx that I can recommend, economic writing isn't my specialty.

I might suggest that you read some Burke. He's not an economic writer, but as a politician he did deal directly with matters of global trade and empire. He might be worth sifting through.

I'm currently reading Edmund Burke's speeches for a grad school class. Just got done with the speech about reconciling with the American colonies. It's interesting how accurately he diagnoses the American character, in a way that's still relevant today.

Beyond "Reflections on the Revolution in France," what is some essential Edmund Burke?

What are some political philosophers/writers one should know about?

*blocks your path*
*criticises your revolution*