Reactionary
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one who supports [Reaction] in opposition to the general [progressive] Western [zeitgeist], often accompanied by a sense that the expansion of democratic [politcs] has made life in general much worse either in absolute terms, or measured by what should have been achievable with modern science, reason, and technology; usually believes [race] is a real genetic construct and therefore not surprised at [disparate] average outcomes across large population groups; often believes human [evolution] has in part or in toto shaped [human nature], which therefore cannot easily, or at all, be changed very much by social engineering and/or conditioning; usually believes [heirarchy] is imprinted upon mankind by nature and/or God, and that heirarchy is not only not necessarily evil, but desirable and even inevitable and ought not be torn down for any but the most grave reasons; tends to support tradition either as revealed by his religion and/or as successful adaptive [memetic] developments which usually solve deep and complex problems in human societies; anti-revolutionary; anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-whig; anti-democratic; anti-globalist; skeptical; (once a term of derision, most reactionaries of late do happily so self-identify)
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A reactionary is, generally speaking, someone who is not only opposed to change, but wants to roll the clock back on any changes that have already happened. This stands in contrast to a [conservative], who wants to maintain the status quo.
In what is either an [Orwellian] attempt to rewrite language, or the result of the [defense mechanism] known as [projection], the word reactionary is also used by reactionaries as a slur against anyone who is not a reactionary.
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Having old political and social views. Being ultraconservative. Reactionaries like to reminisce about the good old days when slavery, sexism, racism and cruel/unusal punishment were prominent.
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verb: (colloquial)as a reaction or response to something.
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extreme conservatism, especially in politics. wanting to restore to past conditions that can no longer compete with modern changes.
Former radical hippies turning into post reactionary hippies
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A person too [stupid] [to think] through the [consequences] of actions.
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Someone who formed his [opinion] based on a [recent] event while disregarding [the past] knowledge or information.
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A term used by college socialists and neo-Marxists to describe anyone with political views to the right of [Mao]. The word has its roots in [the Communist] model of history, where all of human history is supposedly one long class struggle between the working class and the [bourgeois].
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Someone who reacts to change. Specifically reacts to social and cultural progress. A rejection of structure based on objective reality.
This is seen often in the far-left and is most commonly attributed to elements of it that reject social progress (ironically calling their rejection of progress as progress) and prefer a return to no formal [social structure] or culture, similar to primitivism. Ironically, as typical in [leftist] circles, the left tries to take such words and weaponize them against their enemies by giving them the opposite meaning. Similar to fair-share to the leftist meaning 0% taxes for some citizens and 80% taxes for the [ebil] nazi working class. -
Reactionary or Reactionaries are normally on the right political spectrum normally in the form of Pro-Monarchist, Less moderate conservatives and or anti-socialist and [anti-communist]. Though the left has their own reactionaries in the form of anarchist or less moderate socialist or democratic socialist. Though this is not always the case and most of the time they are just radical forms of an already existing ideology. Radical is being used as more instant unlike moderates who like [change over] time and radicals do not always equals bad or negative ideologies. They’re also reactionary [centrist] called Radical Centerist or Radical Liberals which they are called in the media.
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(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform.
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