With time, however, the conservative would find another proving ground in the marketplace. Though most early conservatives were ambivalent about capitalism,104 their successors would come to believe that warriors of a different kind can prove their mettle in the manufacture and trade of commodities. Such men wrestle the earth’s resources to and from the ground, taking for themselves what they want and thereby establishing their superiority over others. The great men of money are not born with privilege or right; they seize it for themselves, without let or permission.105 “Liberty is a
...more
