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# All that is solid melts into air
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air/
- Published: 2007-10-04T09:10:40.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:37:38.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Jon Bright (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** The conservative party is frequently caricatured as the party of big business, low taxes, and promotion of growth. But what is the intuitive connection between liberal capitalism and the conservative ideal? If conservatives are to truly *conserve*, as their name suggests they ought to, can this be reconciled with a form of material allocation where "all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy profaned" in Marx's famous words? If British society is truly 'broken' as Iain Duncan Smith has claimed, what caused the bonds that used to bind us to break? Have a read of [this interesting article](http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8968&ref=opendemocracy.net) by Phillip Blond - for him a redistributive tax structure should be a genuinely Tory policy.