Reactionary A political position that maintains a conservative response to change, primarily to technological advances.
Reaction is the reciprocal action to revolutionary movement.
Reactionaries clamp down on the differences of the emerging productive forces in society, and attempt to remove those differences, silence them, or segregate them in order to keep the stability of the established order. Hundreds of years later in Russia, the tables would turn and capitalists became reactionary while the Socialists are revolutionary. Transcribed by A. Blunden. In dialectics, Reality is a synonym for Actuality . Hegel's comments on this in the Introduction .