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Post-Communist Conservatism
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:date: 2016-12-04T02:48:47
:category: faith
:tags: politics, sociology, conservatism, blogComment

While listening to `the episode 30`_ of the Eastern Border
podcast (a very touching one, thank you, Kristaps), I was touched
by his notion of the post-Communist conservatism. The idea is
that many nations in the former Eastern block seem to be a way
more conservative than people in the former West.

One thing, which seems to me more and more obvious is, that from
the three major political thought systems (other being liberalism
and socialism) conservatism is the least ideological one, because
it is the least angry one, the foundation of conservatism as the
great and too much underappreciated `Michael Oakeshott`_ once
said_ the feeling of thankfulness. And it is no surprising that
at least our and earlier generations of the Eastern block
survivors have many reasons to be thankful, so they may be more
conservative, because they are more aware of what they can loose.

(to be updated …)

.. _`the episode 30`:
    http://theeasternborder.lv/podcast/episode-30-punishment-final-part-the-gulag-within-me/

.. _`Michael Oakeshott`:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oakeshott

.. _said:
   https://matej.ceplovi.cz/cizi/on_being_conservative.html