Conservative Critiques

Abstract

In the preceding chapters the aim has been to explain the core features of the politics of modernity, and the impact of the two revolutions that created the agenda for the politics of modernity and its core assumptions. Liberalism and socialism, in quite different ways, emerged as ideologies and social movements from this revolutionary conjuncture of events. They sought to bring to fruition the core themes of modernity, and the modernist perspective is seen as the key to understanding the preoccupations and tensions of these two ideological families.