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Entry: Who Are We? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/who_are_we#26467 Post contents: For the best definition of real Conservatism (Burke, de Maistre, Adam Müller, et al.), see Karl Mannheim, "Conservative Thought", in" <i>Essays on Sociology and Social Psychology</i>, London: 1953, Section 2 "The Meaning of Conservatism", esp. p. 102-116, "the basic intention behind conservative thought". For a good discussion of a Thomist-Scholastic view of rights, see John Finnis, <i>Natural Law and Natural Rights</i>, Oxford 1980, chapter 8, where Hohfield's theory of rights is discussed. Contemporary conservatism needs to be a combination of Burke and Catholic Social Teaching. It has much to learn from the Austrian School of libertarians and from the ecology movement ("the conservatism of the Left" [sic]). It has NOTHING to do with Fascism, fascism and ultra-nationalism, Clerical Fascism, nationalism in general ("retribalization"), Judeophobia, and racialism -- however much much these anti-conservative movements make real conservatives their useful idiots. And any serious political thought abandons the Left-Right spectrum as a metaphor for thinking. Sent at: 2008 12 02