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"Social conservatism" is a slippery concept. Twentieth-century communist dictatorships prioritized social liberalisms as defined by the lights of the 1910s, when the Russian revolution succeeded: from specific policies like abolition of polygamy and child marriage, family planning, mandatory formal education for women, mandatory selective education for all, caste abolition, various kinds of enthusiastic prohibitionisms (especially on alcohol and opium, but sometimes also on other perceived bourgeois luxuries, like coffee), to wider aesthetic principles like anticlericalism. Thereafter response to changes in liberal ethic varied widely. We might not think of streaming or temperance as socially liberal today, but once upon a time it was radically so. Likewise, the more recent post-Iran Islamist wave is stridently conservative (along the axes that we generally understand by "social issues", anyway) but also generally prioritizes other issues like mass male education (especially rural literacy), abolishing non-religious restraints on access to higher social status (replacing nepotism with some nominally meritocratic/pious criteria), or protection of the lifestyles of small-time farmers, traders, and cottage industry family businesses from the pernicious impact of industrialization. When we say 'hierarchies' - which hierarchies? Rural/urban? Outside the family unit, or within it? ronya fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jun 23, 2021 |
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