Broadly speaking, i would say liberalism. I think liberalism is a perfectly adequate way of describing the kind of order that i seek to describe. And he was completely wrong. If your central thinker and the central apremise of your ideology has got predictions completely wrong, i think you have to question the driftd nature of the ideology he has espoused. So in terms of theory, i think his theories have been more broadly disproved by modern practice. Now you look at the actual instances, the examples of socialist, left wing government, you have an appalling twentieth century iam not going tome.
The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices