Modern Conservatives Must Be Social Revolutionaries

he curse of liberalism is that it will eventually destroy an entity’s plurality. No matter if we talk about culture, cities or whole nations, when liberalism enters, particularity goes out the door.

Maybe that is why the student association Heimdal (named after a Viking god) in Uppsala, Sweden, has the motto ‘tradere et resistere’, meaning ‘to pass and to endure’. They were, in fact, the only conservative ‘institution’ in Sweden for around 30 years, from when conservatism died as an ideology in Sweden in the 80s to when it revived in the 2010s. 

This is the reason Arvid Hallén, Program Director at Oikos, the Nordic country’s only conservative think tank, compared Heimdal to the Gallic village in the story of Asterix and Obelix about when much of France was occupied by the Romans.

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