Conservatism versus socialism. The late-Victorian prophet of inequality, Mallock

• Authors: Egedy G.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The most relentless attack on socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth century was made by W. H. Mallock. He was one of the few Conservatives to take socialism seriously enough to subject it to a rigorous criticism and thus he did more than probably anyone else to convince Conservatives that socialism, and not liberalism, was their real enemy. Mallock was dissatisfied with evolutionary sociology, but neither could he rely - in constructing his defence of the man of ability - on the concepts of traditional conservatism. Consequently, he tried to elaborate a new theoretical framework to prove his main thesis, i.e. the connexion between the inequalities in human capacity and the inequality of wealth. He insisted that any changes that tend to abolish inequalities would tend also to destroy civilization. This conviction led him, however, to an exaggerated defence of individualism, neglecting the corporate needs of society.

Keywords

EN

INEQUALITY; LIBERALISM; MALLOCK W. H. (SCIENTIFIC CONSERVATIVISM); SOCIALISM

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Department of Economics and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-161
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Egedy G.

• G. Egedy, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07HUAAAA02775659