Response to egalitarianism and fascism

What was Harold Macmillian’s (1894-1986) idea

-a middle way between capitalism and socialism

: respect of property rights while addressing economic inequalities

What did Conservative politicians support in this time

Public health, Housing and Factory Acts

What brought conservatism closer to a ‘big government’ post 1945

The embracing of Keynesian economics, ‘welfare state’ and ‘mixed economies’

main threat of egalitarianism in the 20th century

Soviet Union

threat to conservatism in the in early 20th century

extension of franchise and Labour

reason for shift to pragmatism and opportunism

conservative politicians in the 20th century needed to win elections which were now dominated by working class and non property owners

what did socialist thinkers think of this change

‘conservatives conserve no principles’

Quintin Hogg’s Case for Conservatism (1948)

Conservatism recognises laissez-faire can be destructive

R.A. Butler’s The Art of the Possible (1971)

Keynesian economics is just an updated expression in the beliefs in one nation and paternalism