Editing Reactionary Socialism (section)

===[[File:Metternich.png]] Metternichism===
A traditional conservative, [[File:Metternich.png]] '''Prince Klemens von Metternich''' (1773-1859) was keen to maintain the balance of power, particularly by resisting Russian territorial ambitions in Central Europe and the Ottoman Empire. He disliked liberalism and strove to prevent the breakup of the Austrian Empire, for example, by crushing nationalist revolts in Austrian northern Italy. He pursued a similar policy at home, using censorship and a wide-ranging spy network to suppress unrest.

Metternich refered to himself as a conservative socialist (''socialiste conservateur'') in his letters.<ref>"Klemens von Metternich to François Guizot, 15 June 1847, in Richard von Metternich, ed., [https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdocumen07mettuoft ''Mémoires, documents et écrits divers laissés par le prince de Metternich, chancelier de cour et d'état'', vol. 7] (Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883), [https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdocumen07mettuoft/page/402 p. 402.]

See also Peter Viereck, “New Views on Metternich,” ''The Review of Politics'' 13, no. 2 (1951): 211–28, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1404765.</ref> His socialism stemmed from his wish to preserve the guild economy and his support for paternalism. He also opposed economic liberalism.

He saw nationalism as a threat to the cosmopolitan nature of the empire and a threat to its stability. This would lead him to suppress nationalist sentiments in the empire and other empires like the Ottoman Empire.