Orwell on Chesterton

Andy Robertson · 11 Jan 2005, 13:48 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Tue Jan 11 13:48:26 2005
Subject: (urth) Orwell on Chesterton
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> I don't recall the paeans to gun ownership and supply-side economics in
> Exodus from the Long Sun; however, Wolfe's comments on contemporary-ish
> politics are reliably conservative, but his works, to me at least, seem 
> less than approving of corporate capitalism. 

There is no linkage between Catholic Conservatism and a support for 
"corporate capitalism".   Quite the reverse.  "Conservatism" in its origin 
stands for the conserving the traditonal rights of the little guy against 
the big guy who would enslave him, whether banker, lawyer or landowner: and 
the Catholic church was a pillar of this conservation and its one effective 
arm. 

But you'll never understand if I call it Conservatism, because neither 
conservatism nor the Catholic Church are trying to conserve any of this 
today 

Where do I begin? 

I hate to say it, but I realise again just how very much Wolfe owes to 
Chesterton. 

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