Reactionary

To a reactionary, the ideal future neither continues the present nor recreates the past.— Curtis "Moldbug" Yarvin, 2020Newsletter received "19 Jul, 2020".
To be a reactionary, minimally speaking, requires no more than a recognition that things are going to hell. — Nick Land, Jan 24, 2013
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The French Revolution gave the English language three politically descriptive words denoting anti-progressive politics: (i) "reactionary", (ii) "conservative", and (iii) "right". "Reactionary" derives from the French word réactionnaire (a late 18th-century coinage based on the word réaction, "reaction") and "conservative" from conservateur, identifying monarchist parliamentarians opposed to the revolution. In this French usage, reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs". The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first English language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor.En Wiki.
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Reaction; Politics; Right wing
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Category:Politics