The Similarities Between Communism And Conservatism

In the 19th century, a time filled with revolution, industrialization, and overall change, two major social and economic ideals came to the forefront, liberalism and conservatism, in a struggle as to what happened society and where it will go. The two social and economic were pretty much polar opposite, disagreeing over how a state should be governed, suffrage, role of religion in society, how the economy should be run, and how change should be executed. However, the two shared some, emphasise on some, similarities on issues such as suffrage, socialism, change, and the rising ideology of socialism. Beginning with the basis of these two social/economic ideals, It’s plain to see the two are exact opposites with conservatism striving for conserving society, focusing on tradition, institutions, and privileges, and liberalism striving to move forward and evolve society, focusing on liberties, reform, progress, individualism, and equality. When it came to how a state should be governed, conservatism believed that a state should be elected by a monarch by hierarchy, such as in the situation of France after the fall of Napoleon I as it was tradition, while liberals believed a state should be a representative legislature elected by
Speaking of similarities, another comparison that is similar in that they were huge, seemingly opposite, social/economic ideologies that fought against each other over their beliefs with one leaning far left, communism, and the other right, but not nearly as far as communism, that being capitalism. While communism stemmed from socialism, which the liberals did not agree with, it does share the fact that they both pushed for major change, whether it be good or bad. On the other hand we have capitalism, which, just like conservatism strived to conserve, although the their goal was to keep communism from spreading and conserve