19th Century One Nation

• Disraeli embraced class differences but in a way that he hoped to foster unity rather than rupture
• Disraeli scorned ideas such as international working class solidarity. Therefore ONC argued that the nation's aristocracy had a paternalistic duty to elevate the condition of the people. This would allow social and political progress to be achieved harmoniously without the horror of violent revolution
• The philanthropy of noblesse oblige would not be sufficient and therefore ONC endorsed state sponsored social reform
• ONC became associated with legislation that tempered the effects of laissez-faire capitalism, supposedly on behalf of the nation's working classes