Bitterly opposed to equality, whether equality before the law or equality of opportunity, conservatives feared mass democracy. The ‘idea of the modern state’, that all citizens are equal before a sovereign, implied a fundamental human equality which they regarded as anathema. The old right were therefore against the state, preferring a mythical vision of medieval feudalism, when society was believed to be an organic whole, unified despite its separate and unequal ‘estates’.
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