Real conservatism requires successful identification with liberal capitalism

Evidence

Although Adorno usually used the terms pseudo-conservative', pseudo-liberal’, pseudo-democratic' and even pseudo-socialist’ as synonyms, he introduced the term pseudo-conservatism' specifically to be able to interpret the political and economic views of the interviewees adequately. The pseudo-conservatives’ suffered from a failed identification with conventional values and institutions, and their conservatism and conventionalism merely represented a rationalizing cover for destructive, rebellious impulses. The `genuine conservatives’ had succeeded in making the identification, and this went hand in hand with a devotion to liberal, individualistic forms of capitalism and with serious democratic attitudes and behaviour. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1800

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conservative self-identification centers on economics far more than liberal does — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2078; Modern freedom rests on an unacknowledged capitalist metaphysic

Broader Connections

• Conservative self-identification centers on economics far more than liberal does #corroborates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2078
• Modern freedom rests on an unacknowledged capitalist metaphysic #corroborates (0.72)