Lasting Revolution

The Revolutionary War taught us that conservative revolution is the one that lasts and does not deteriorate into a dictatorship. Remember that Lenin and Stalin violently imposed a total transformation upon the Soviet peoples, and later it disappear and collapsed utterly. The whimpering remnant lingering today is the Putin, Christian dictatorship in Mother Russia. Fanatics and totalitarians imposed a bloody change that did not take, but left this people permanently, culturally, politically crippled. They cannot go back, but they cannot quite attain a free market, Western style democracy either. What are the salient features in this conservative revolution? 1. The goals aimed at must be expected being deep and permanent. What change that is deep and permanent but be brought about gently, peacefully, gradually, dispassionately and be free chosen by the participants. 2. The changes have to be moderate: conservative but not reactionary, not achieved by violent means or by coercion; the will of the majority will be heeded but minority rights are sacrosanct; the ends sought are democratic, free market and for religious tolerance. 3. The revolutionary goals cannot be radical swings to the left or the right, in secular or religious modes. Deviation from new norms will be expected, welcomed and even encouraged. 4. There will be no revenge exacted from rearguard stalwarts, now out of favor and out of power. 5. Deep lasting change require inclusion of such improvements as individuator primacy, anarchism, a secular public entity separate from faiths officially but run and supported by a mostly religious citizenry. The influence will be consciously and intentionally indirect. 6. This peaceful, gentle revolution must be waged one persona at a time with each convert deciding to get with it of his own free will, or not at all. The government and the church cannot impose the improvements externally to personal choice. 7. No revolution will work unless the nature of evil is accurately understood, for no reform will take unless the ways of sin are roundly combated. For example, we must admit that we are basically evil, and for us to be better, we need to sublimate, not fight or deny our basic natures. With education, through self-actualization theory and sophisticated training, most people will behave in remarkable, admirable new ways. There may be other salient features, but these are the ones I can think of.