Yinko
Well-known member
Conservatism isn't a set of issues you can easily quantify, because there are variations for every culture. Hense "to conserve what you have" or more often "to resurrect what you had".People say that but on what issue exactly? Family Values? Party before all and all that. Child birth? One child policy, honestly seems to he more the Party decides what to do with your body that Pro-Choice. Free Press? The Press belongs to the Party doesn't sound conservative to me. Race? The Party decides what constitutes a people. Sounds more like people conflate lining up the gays along with the clerics, businessmen and the rights of the unborn in the same row by the wall makes them socially conservative for some reason.
Within that however, it is rather interesting that Eastern Europe is a current bastion of social conservatism. Poland, Hungary, Russia, you can even see it in the clean split between West and East Germany in their politics and behavior that exists to this day.
You might argue that this is all reactionary sentiment, but that seems implausible, what seems more likely to me is that "cultural marxism" was seen as too damaging for their own people, as others here have said, you need a working society to rule.