But if in key respects his
philosophy is
conservative, his views still bear unmistakable traces of his earlier Marxism — which is perhaps why he has provoked critical comment from neoconservatives (who tend to be more open than paleoconservatives to what MacIntyre calls the «central features of the
modern economic order»).
But that objection to historicist conservatism was raised, as Muller notes, by Leo Strauss, certainly a
conservative thinker, at least in the sense that classical political
philosophy is a major source of
modern conservatism.