Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth

Conservative RadicalismA Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism 1970-1992\nAuthor(s): Timothy Evans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, United States\nImprint: Berghahn Books, Incorporated\nISBN-13: 9781571818720, 978-1571818720\nSynopsis\nIf you share the commonly-held notions about the New Right, which typically associate it with a reactionary ideology of social and economic change, then you are in for a surprise: this study - the first to be carried out from the inside - shows that, at least so far as its young members are concerned, their core values rest upon a radical agenda that is explicitly internationalist, individualist, culturally relativist and secularist. After examining the social background and political psychology of the young Libertarians, the author comes to the conclusion that in adhering to a world view that has more to do with individualism - or \""property-rights anarchism\""- than any form of collectivist ideo.