What Being a Conservative in Britain Used to Mean

[exchemist]

You could maybe try a tonsure?

Don't have enough hair in the first place - you'd barely notice.

 

[exchemist]

Karl Marx’s reputation, as a historian, economist and philosopher, is imo unjustly tarnished by those authoritarian regimes of the 20th Century who called themselves Marxist.

Don't much care for the sound of "dictatorship of the proletariat", myself.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Don't much care for the sound of "dictatorship of the proletariat", myself.

I was careful not to include political figurehead - or prophet - in my list of his areas of expertise.

And to be fair, the dictatorship of the proletariat was supposed to be a short term interim measure; the Bolsheviks in Russia and elsewhere ignored that bit.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I have never been a conservative yet I believe that I understand your position. Back in my teens in the 1970's I had a very good friend, something of a mentor in fact, he was very much of the left. Surprisingly he spoke of various conservatives with great warmth. Obviously he did not agree with them but he had great respect for people of principle, especially those involved with good works. I learnt a wonderful lesson there. Sadly I rarely see the type that met his approval now.

Definitely there has been a stark change of attitudes in the chambers then vs now.

It used to be one of decorum and respect, now it's a bipartisan circus freak show.