Paleoconservatism

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Paleoconservatism (from English paleoconservatism ) is a current of conservative political philosophy ; its representatives are mainly found in the USA . The paleoconservatives have roots in, the Old Right '( Old Right ), which in the 1930s and 1940s against the New Deal was opposed. They emphasize values ​​such as tradition , minimal statehood , anti-communism , advocate a protectionist foreign trade policy and are staunch opponents of the welfare state and immigration . Paleoconservatives emphasize values ​​such as traditional family and Christian - Western culture; They strongly oppose same-sex marriages and abortions .

In contrast to the neoconservatives , they are also hostile to imperialism or neo-imperialism and an interventionist foreign policy of the United States . They share this attitude and their traditional system of values ​​with the so-called paleolibertarians . When it comes to economic issues, they tend to be protectionism ; see. Isolationism . The content is often close to distributism .

Politically, the paleoconservative movement is organized in the Constitution Party , but also as a smaller current in the Republican Party .

The best-known paleoconservatives include Pat Buchanan and Paul Gottfried . The British philosopher Roger Scruton is also often referred to as paleoconservative . According to the left-liberal website Vox, the protectionist economic policy and the generally isolationist foreign policy of US President Donald Trump show paleoconservative proportions.

The journal The American Conservative , which has been published since 2002, is the main journalistic forum for the paleoconservatives in the USA .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Chu: 10 Questions for Pat Buchanan. In: Time . August 20, 2006, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Joseph Scotchie (ed.): The Paleoconservatives. New Voices of the Old Right . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 978-1-351-47773-4 , pp. 1-15 (English).
  3. ^ Paul Gottfried: The Conservative Movement . Twayne, Boston 1993, ISBN 978-0-8057-9749-7 (English).
  4. ↑ Paul Gottfried: Paleoconservatism . In: Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, Jeffrey O. Nelson (Eds.): American Conservatism. To Encyclopedia . ISI, Wilmington (Delaware) 2006, ISBN 978-1-61017-103-8 , pp. 651-652 (English).
  5. ↑ Chilton Williamson Jr .: What Is Paleoconservatism? Man, know thyself! In: Chronicles . tape 25 , no. January 1 , 2001 (English, online ( Memento from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive )). What is paleoconservatism? Man, know thyself! ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chroniclesmagazine.org
  6. ↑ Thomas E. Woods, Jr: Defending the "Little Platoons". Communitarianism in American Conservatism . In: American Studies . tape 40 , no. 3 , 1999, p. 127-145 (English).
  7. ^ The Joy of Conservatism: An Interview with Roger Scruton. In: Orthodoxy Today. April 4, 2006, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Paleoconservatism, the movement did Explains Donald Trump, explained '. In: vox.com. May 6, 2016, accessed May 31, 2019 .