The legacy of 20th century history has left the Right in Central Europe questioning what we are meant to conserve after 40 years of communism. Our task is not so much to preserve traditions, but to reawaken them and to establish new ones. This approach is more reactionary; Central European conservatism is combative, because it has to be.
If conservatives seek to uphold the law of the home, it is because they consider it neither feasible nor desirable to transcend it. Hence, they defend the local over the universal and the familiar over the anonymous. Their attachment to their country is founded on reverence and fidelity to that place which made them, and whose geography, law and culture constitutes the fabric of their identity and the object of their true affection.
The Midwit Meme claims that the uneducated and the very educated are natural allies. The real problem is found with those towards the centre of the spectrum, the slightly educated lot.
This book is a valuable vademecum for all European conservatives—and should be seen as a call to action for the revival of European conservative thinking in the public arena.
