 As we saw, conservatives have conflicting responses towards established power that arises from revolution. Non-relativistic conservatives  (1.4 above)  always rejected the Soviet system, no matter how long it endured, and continue to reject Chinese communism. They do not regard these as “traditions” in the manner of long-standing, organically-evolving institutions such as English Common Law. Relativistic conservatives, in contrast, might accept these systems, if they endure for long enough. Thus Oakeshott in Rationalism in Politics refers to the Russian tradition of autocracy, perpetuated by the Bolshevik revolution; it is not “good” or “bad” tradition, but the only one that Russia knows. On his view, it seems, tradition is inescapable, and societies rather rigid. 