Coming back to UK politics, if the definition of Conservatism is wanting to conserve the past and resitance to change, then it is the Old Labour left wingers who are the conservative wing of the Labour Party. It all gets very confusing.

"I often think it comical, Tra la la, Tra la la,
That nature always does contrive, tra la la, la la,
That every boy and every girl that's born into this world alive,
Is either a little liberal, or else a little Conservative, Tra la la"

From Gilbert & Sullivan (Iolanthe I think).