Social conservatism

This article deals with conservative answers to the social question. For the US concept of social conservatism, see Sociopolitical Conservatism .

The social conservatism is historically a conservative trend of the 19th and early 20th century back, which results from a Christian perspective, the social question was dedicated. Early approaches can be found in the considerations of the philosophers Franz von Baader and Adam Müller von Nitterdorf . The former coined the term proletarian . Its representatives include Adolph Kolping , Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler , the Protestants Lorenz von Stein and Rudolf Todt . The common goal was the fight against pauperism , which had arisen through the influx of the rural population into the industrial cities and their exploitation there at the beginning of industrialization. In contrast to the socialists, they gave the state an important role in the fight against poverty.

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This is also followed by current socially conservative considerations that continue to try to answer the social question under globalization through state welfare and a strong welfare state . This is justified, among other things, with the claim to hold the social structure together by reducing the "differences between rich and poor".

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• Franz von Baader: About the current disproportion between the wealthless or the proletariat and the wealthy classes of the society with regard to their livelihood, both materially and intellectually, viewed from the standpoint of law . Munich 1835.
• Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler: Social charitable care of the church for the workers . Presentation for the Bishops' Conference in Fulda 1869, In: Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler's writings , Bd. 2, ed. by Johannes Mumbauer, Kempten / Munich 1911, pp. 145–166.

literature

• Hermann Beck: The role of social conservatism in Prussian-German history as a research problem, In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany, Vol. 43, Berlin 1995, pp. 59-136.
• Wilhelm Bleek: Lorenz von Stein (1815-1890) , In: Political Theories of the 19th Century, ed. by Bernd Heidenreich. 2nd edition, Berlin 2002, pp. 587–604.
• Johannes Kandel: Protestant Social Conservatism at the End of the 19th Century. Pastor Rudolf Todt's examination of socialism in the conflict between church and political camps (= Political and Social History, vol. 32). Bonn 1993.
• Hans-Christof Kraus: Hermann Wagener (1815-1889) , In: Political Theories of the 19th Century, ed. by Bernd Heidenreich. 2nd edition, Berlin 2002, pp. 537-586.
• William O. Shanahan: The Social Outlook of Prussian Conservatism , In: The Review of Politics, Vol. 15. Cambridge University Press 1953, pp. 209-252.
• Theo Stammen: Franz von Baader (1765-1841) , In: Political Theories of the 19th Century, ed. by Bernd Heidenreich. 2nd edition, Berlin 2002, pp. 605–628.
• Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer: Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler (1811–1877) , In: Political Theories of the 19th Century, ed. by Bernd Heidenreich. 2nd edition, Berlin 2002, pp. 629–647.

See also

• Catholic social teaching
• Sacred Heart Socialist

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henning Ottmann: History of political thought. The Modern Age. The political currents in the 19th century . Stuttgart 2008, p. 40.