Does anyone know any good conservative critiques of capitalism? I've read that there were radical anti-capitalist criticisms by conservatives at one time, when capitalism was equivalent to liberalism its political opponent, poets like Southey or Coleridge hated the factory system, hated it all as modernist, authors like Nisbet had to explain it by defining conservatism as not simply anti-statist but also anti-individualist and Russel Kirk that the opposition was only opposition to capitalism in so far as it was seen as a stage or step towards socialism, the "real" enemy (those are somersaults of logic for sure).
Those are specifically english and pastoral critiques but there were equivalent authors in the US, they are pretty much forgotten with the emergence of first Reaganism and then Libertarianism, who criticised the "carpet baggers" and other forces after the north won the civil war, although they did in some circumstances operate as apologists for racism or slavery in watered down variants such as indentured labour.
The neo-cons are, in theory at least, less fiscally "conservative", ie libertarian, than other conservatives and some of the theo-cons are, radically so, anti-capitalist in so far as it is "modernist" and they seem to want to adopt societal norms and economies resembling Calvin's Geneva.
In the communist manifesto and elsewhere Marx did do, what has baffled some, a kind of rear guard defence of capitalism against these very sorts of conservative anti-capitalisms validating liberal political economy and a kind of "developmentalist" stages theory which allowed lenin et al to defend the indefensible as just another stage on the road to "eventual" socialism.
Those are specifically english and pastoral critiques but there were equivalent authors in the US, they are pretty much forgotten with the emergence of first Reaganism and then Libertarianism, who criticised the "carpet baggers" and other forces after the north won the civil war, although they did in some circumstances operate as apologists for racism or slavery in watered down variants such as indentured labour.
The neo-cons are, in theory at least, less fiscally "conservative", ie libertarian, than other conservatives and some of the theo-cons are, radically so, anti-capitalist in so far as it is "modernist" and they seem to want to adopt societal norms and economies resembling Calvin's Geneva.
In the communist manifesto and elsewhere Marx did do, what has baffled some, a kind of rear guard defence of capitalism against these very sorts of conservative anti-capitalisms validating liberal political economy and a kind of "developmentalist" stages theory which allowed lenin et al to defend the indefensible as just another stage on the road to "eventual" socialism.
