Das Scheitern des deutschen Tory-Konservatismus

Mergel, Thomas

doi:10.1524/hzhz.2003.276.jg.323

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“…In contrast to the development in other nations, the radicalization of German conservatism was due to an obvious lack of liberalized and modernized conservative thought; thus, the analysis of the interactions between conservatism and liberalism make comparisons between different countries possible. While in Great Britain, for example, a more moderate liberal-conservative strand of Toryism could already develop in the 19th century, such a progressive-conservative synthesis was largely absent in the German context: "German conservatism via free access remained anti-liberal, very largely anti-bourgeois and initially, in its rhetoric at least, often even anticapitalist" (Puhle, 1978, p. 699; see also Mergel, 2003). At the latest since the turn of the century, a large part of German conservatism had clearly swung to a new aggressively völkisch, anti-Semitic, and nationalist course (Schildt, 1995).…”

Section: The Emergence Of German Radical Conservatism In Early 20th C...mentioning

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Radical Conservatism and the Liberal Question

Adler-Bartels

2023

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To understand conservatism as an isolated ideology is an almost hopeless endeavor; after all, conservative thinking is always embedded into specific ideological constellations. While the mirror-image effect identified by Michael Freeden generally emphasizes the conceptual intertwining of conservatism with other ideologies, the example of German conservatism highlights its structural dependence on liberalism, described here as the liberal question. The article focuses on the context of radical conservatism and sheds light on the radicalization of German conservative thought in the nineteenth century focusing on the thinkers Hermann Wagener (1815–1889) and Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891). Despite their different biographical and political starting points, both Wagener and Lagarde developed a radicalized conservatism that made the (intellectual) struggle against liberalism the supreme task of their metapolitical agenda. In the context of the so-called Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic, this radical thinking condensed into a distinct political movement. The historical reconstruction of this episode of radicalization of German conservatism thus also serves to provide a differentiated view of contemporary right-wing phenomena in general.

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Radical Conservatism and the Liberal Question

Adler-Bartels

2023

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“…| 17 became radical anti-republican and cooperated with the Nazi-movement (NationalSocialist German Workers Party) that aimed at a national dictatorship (Mergel 2003). Yet, democracy was also under thread from communists 13 and other leftist organisations aiming at a social order following the Russian model.…”

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