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"It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master."

Reactionaryism, also known as Reactionary or Counterrevolutionary, is a philosophy that advocates for the restoration or preservation of traditional social, political, and economic systems. It is characterized by a rejection of progressive or liberal ideas and a belief that society has become too modern or innovative.

Reactionaries argue that traditional values, such as order, tradition, and immaterialism; have been undermined or lost in modern society, and that a return to these values is necessary to restore social cohesion and stability. They also often argue that the Enlightenment, and the ideas and values associated with it, such as reason, individualism, and democracy; have had negative consequences for society, and that a return to pre-Enlightenment ways of thinking is needed.

Reactionaries have a nostalgic view of the past and romanticize or idealize certain historical periods or social structures. They are hostile to social and cultural changes, such as the rise of secularism, gender equality, and the decline of traditional religions or cultural practices.

History

Reactionaryism started, as the name implies, as a reaction to the French Revolution; identifying as absolute monarchists opposed to the revolution. At this time, Reactionaryism organized opposition to the progressive sociopolitical and economic changes brought by the revolution; and they fought to restore the temporal authority of the Church and Crown.

In the post-Napoleonic world, Europe generally returned to its pre-revolution state, with the old French monarchy being restored. During the age of Metternich (1815-1848), Europe was generally led by conservative and reactionary leaders. These regimes were characterized as being monarchist, authoritarian, and counter-enlightenment. The reactionary state of Europe took a strong hit during the July Revolution in 1830, in which the reactionary monarchy of France was replaced by a more enlightened one, and then the revolutions of 1848, in which much of Europe changed towards constitutional monarchy. Throughout the second half of the 19th century only Russia remained as a dominant reactionary power under the rule of Alexander III (1881-1894) By the time WWI came the world existed in a mostly Liberal and enlightened state and reactionary ideology no longer held power. There is some debate over whether or not the Italian Fascists and German Nazis should be considered reactionaries, with proponents of fascism often claiming not, while opponents claim that it is.

In recent times "Reactionary" tends to be used more as a pejorative by progressive and socialist political movements, but the term "neo-reactionary" has more recently been applied to, and sometimes a self-description of, an informal group of online political theorists known as the Dark Enlightenment.

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Evolaism is an ideology based on the views of philosopher, painter, and poet Julius Evola, being authoritarian, radically far-right, and occult. Evolaism in general is based on a few principles: Neo-fascism, ultra-traditionalism, and Occultism/Mysticism. Evola was the first person to translate Laozi's Tao Te Ching in Italian.

  • Occultism/Mysticism: The main characteristic of Evolaism is Occultism and Mysticism, which is evident when he thought about killing himself but changed his mind after reading a Buddhist text. He believed in Novalis' magical idealism and Hermeticism, with an interest in Tantra and Esotericism. He believes in the Left Hand Path and that certain individuals would be using dark sexual powers against the current world and also that anyone who rejects "the leveling world of democracy, capitalism, multiracialism and technology in the early 21st century" would find relief. amidst the chaos. He also uses esotericism and uses Buddhist, Tantric, Hermetic, and Pagan texts, opposing Christianity. He also endorses ghosts, telepathy, and alchemy.
  • Racism: He bases his racial views on his elitism and aristocracy and on esoteric racism, believing that there is a racial difference also in spiritual matters, in which the "heavenly Aryan race" would be reconstituted in Nazi-fascist regimes, also based on Hyperborea. He is also anti-Semitic but criticizes Hitler's exaggerated anti-Semitism.
  • Ultra-traditionalism: He is a strong opponent of modern society and that there was an Ancient Golden Age and that modern society was corrupted and (as stated before) would have individuals using dark sexual power in between.

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Falun Gong

Falun Gong (法轮功) or Falun Dafa (法轮大法) is a new religious movement, known for its reactionary and anti-communist sentiment founded by Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s and since 1999, have been banned by the Communist Party of China, with its members actively being persecuted and arrested for their beliefs. It practices 3 core tenets:

  • 真 (Truthfulness) - Honesty
  • 善 (Compassion) - Do good things and practice virtues irl.
  • 忍 (Forbearance) - Do not get angry and hate people even if they do incorrect things or offend you.

Falun Gong emerged toward the end of China's "qigong boom" — a period that saw a proliferation of similar practices of meditation, and promotion of Confucian values. The movement gained widespread popularity in China throughout the 1990s and by 1999 government sources estimated that there were 70-100 million practitioners, more than there were CPC members at the time (although this number was most likely a gross overestimate). Falun Gong initially enjoyed support from the Chinese government which actively promoted the spiritual group despite its right-wing anti-communist leanings. This could be because Deng Xiaoping, after his 1992 Southern Tour, decided to drop socialism completely and fully embrace free-market capitalism and may have perceived Falun Gong due to its promotion of Confucian values as a counterbalance to the Chinese New Left and liberal opposition. The fact Falun Gong promotes itself as a healthy qigong practice that can cure diseases without one needing to take medicine may have been cost-effective and convenient for the Chinese government as China at the time lacked a proper healthcare system. And there have been lots of cases where practicing Falun Gong cured diseases, but many of these cases were not published to the public and remain as stories of miracles that are told between other practitioners, family, and friends. And Falun Gong believes the proper term is “cleansing the body”, as they see the ultimate goal of curing the diseases is to make spiritual progress and they refuse to just cure anybody who doesn’t want to practice Falun Gong long-term and are just here for curing. In 1995, Li Hongzhi declared that he had finished teaching Falun Gong in China, and began spreading the practice abroad. Between 1995 and 1999, Li traveled the world giving lectures on his beliefs wherever he went. Falun Gong associations and clubs began appearing all throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. Li Hongzhi moved to the United States in 1996 with his wife and daughter, and in 1998 became a U.S. permanent resident, settling in New York, where Falun Gong's headquarters remain to this day. The Chinese government under President

Jiang Zemin had little to no support due to mass poverty, corruption, nepotism, and repression by state officials which fueled the popularity of Falun Gong which many perceived as an escape from the bitter reality. Jiang Zemin came to perceive the spiritual group as a threat to his power as an increasing number of CPC officials (Possibly including future President Xi Jinping) actively practiced or sympathized with Falun Gong themselves. Jiang Zemin started a campaign against Falun Gong, labeling it as an “evil cult” and stirring up the public against it by playing propaganda and fake news across all the TV stations and newspapers in China. On 25 April 1999, about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the central appeals office in Beijing to demand an end to the escalating harassment against the movement, and on 29 July the same year, Falun Gong was banned by the Central Government. The persecution of Falun Gong enabled Jiang Zemin to seize control of media, police, and the military to eliminate dissent. He even went so far as to create his own paramilitary organization called the “610 Office” to persecute the spiritual group. Re-education through labor, Laojiao, rapidly expanded with hundreds of camps being built all across the country to jail Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents.

The persecution of Falun Gong gave Jiang Zemin unprecedented powers and made it easier for him to maintain a high level of influence over Party politics after his term ended in 2004 when he was forced to formally hand over power to the new Paramount Leader Hu Jintao. Local officials often competed to arrest as many Falun Gong practitioners as possible to show their loyalty to Jiang's faction. The Governor of Liaoning, Bo Xilai, was one of the leading officials in the Anti-Falun Gong campaign which made it easier for him to rise through the ranks of the Party. The anti-Falun Gong propaganda includes a staged suicide video by the CCP (which was broadcasted to every single TV station at one point), accusing criminals of practicing Falun Gong and letting them go unpunished if they say they did, using religious puppet groups to condemn Falun Gong, and much more.

The persecution of Falun Gong caused many of its practitioners to flee China. Jiang Zemin saw this and started to tell other countries anti-Falun Gong propaganda, giving them a “black list”, which contains names of Falun Gong practitioners so they can be sent back to China if they attempt to go oversees. As there wasn’t many news about Falun Gong outside of China at the time, many countries believed Jiang Zemin. But after a while and lots of Falun Gong protests, other countries started to question Jiang Zemin’s words and eventually accepted Falun Gong. Many settled in the US where they would gain financial support from the US government and the Republican Party to promote conservative anti-communist sentiment. Falun Gong practitioners established a vast global media network consisting of arts and entertainment company Shen Yun, the newspaper Epoch Times, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) broadcaster, and the YouTube channel China Uncensored, among others that promote negative coverage of CCP's China.

Falun Gong due to their revisionist views of the ancient dynasties are believers in the mandate of heaven which stresses that when the rulers of China become too corrupt and inept to rule the Chinese people will overthrow the government and a new dynasty will take its place.

Falun Gong (among other Chinese dissident groups) alleges the CCP abroad carries out organ harvesting and torture of prisoners of conscience with the organs being sold on black markets with creditable evidence. Falun Gong practitioners abroad have signed arrest warrants for Jiang Zemin and Bo Xilai for engaging in genocide. In 2013 Spain ordered the arrest of former President Jiang Zemin meaning that he no longer can set foot in Spain without being put on trial.

Falun Gong media often promote views in line with the Republican Party and Western conservative politicians such as Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. This includes political stances like opposition to open immigration, multiculturalism, gun control, and anything perceived to be left-wing or progressive They are also very critical of "elites" a corporations such as Bill Gates' Microsoft and Cisco which they accuse of having helped China set up their surveillance network, Great Firewall, and promoting Chinese state propaganda. Falun Gong support the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan over the Kuomintang which they perceive to be too friendly to CCP's interests and want China and Taiwan to be recognized as separate countries. They're also highly supportive of other Chinese dissident organizations such as the World Uyghur Congress, the Central Tibetan Administration, and the Hong Kong Democracy Movement, as Falun Gong hopes the CCP will crumble.

Falun Gong media have gained widespread popularity and coverage since Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The group portrays Trump as a messiah-like figure sent from heaven to destroy the Chinese Communist Party. Before 2021, anti-CCP affiliated media (including Falun Gong medias) such as China Uncensored regularly tried to portray then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and the US Democratic Party as communist sympathizers that would turn the US into a Chinese vassal state should Trump not win the 2020 Presidential Election. Since Trump lost (which the group initially denied by promoting the election fraud conspiracy) and Biden won the presidency, Falun Gong media has back-tracked on their negative coverage of the Democratic Party as US-China relations have only worsened over the past 2 years contrary to what they had previously told their audience would happen.

Even though former President Jiang Zemin has significantly lost influence within the Communist Party and eventually died in 2022, over the past decade due to losing the power struggle against current Paramount Leader and President Xi Jinping, Falun Gong remains illegal in China, possibly because of Xi's fear that legalizing the group would mean to admit the CCP did something wrong in the first place which would greatly polarize Chinese society.

There are various theories as to why Falun Gong was suppressed by CCP. Most explanations stem from the CCP system, such as the threatening nature of Falun Gong to CCP rule, its independence from the PRC, and the internal politics of the CCP.

Some scholars argue that Falun Gong is at odds with CCP's atheistic political ideology. Falun Gong's belief system is based on traditional Chinese Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and is therefore not bound by CCP laws but only by morality. Falun Gong's beliefs represent a revival of traditional Chinese religion, a challenge to the legitimacy (mainly in morals) of the CCP regime, and a threat to the CCP's right to interpret history, and can be seen as an ideological enemy of the CCP, and therefore subject to purge.

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Beliefs

Reactionaryism preaches the return to a previous political state of society it describes views and policies aimed at restoring a status quo of the past, usually as a result of principles which go against the current status quo, such as philosophical or religious condemnation of a given society. They see the society of the past as inherently superior in terms of morality/society/etc. While all reactionaries are culturally far-right, it's not always the other way around, especially for ideologies that propose a new system entirely as opposed to a direct return to status-quo-ante (example: Esoteric Fascism). However, as the society of today is so different in many ways, opposition to it may inevitably seek inspiration from past systems, directly or not. It also often is based around strict hierarchies and extreme religiousity.

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Personality

Reactionary is very religious and traditional, likes challenging people to duels, and speaks old English (e.g. thou), maybe also Latin or Greek. He's against progressivism and "degeneracy", believing they're ruining civilization. Reactionaryism advocates the use of violence against progressives and wants to cleanse the world of degeneration by erasing any progressive ideas from the face of the earth. He's best friends with Traditionalism and Authoritarian Conservatism and has many descendants, not all of whom he deems successful.

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  • Monarcho-Socialism - Why art thou a socialist, mine king?
  • Anarcho-Monarchism - Why art thou an anarchist, my lord?
  • Elective Monarchism - Why art thou democratic, my lord?
  • Reactionary Liberalism - Why art thou a lib? I still admire that thou hath ended the Jacobin madness.
  • Reactionary Socialism - The same as above, please understand the obvious - socialism did not exist before the Enlightenment.
  • Reactionary Libertarianism - ...and neither did libertarianism.
  • Reactionary Populism - A splendid way to bring tradition into the minds of the riff-raff.
  • Reactionary Neoconservatism - Why art thou a conservative?
  • Neoreactionaryism - Thou art blessed but please go outside. Your time on weird websites hath made you speak queerly. And thy admiration for modern philosophers is positively dubious...
  • Reactionary Modernism - Technology may not be all that bad it seems, but go outside, one video game of Crusader Kings (whatever that is) too many, son.
  • Archeofuturism - son, what is this creature?
  • Conservatism - Thou call thyself a conservative, yet, what hast thou conserved?
  • Classical Conservatism - Thou wish to conserve more but still accept some degeneracy, also Pitt wanted religious freedom in the United Kingdom as if he were some libtard so I had to oust him.
    • Pittites - That is because I am not a Tory, Addington.
  • Conservative Feminism - Some call thee a tradthot.
  • Monarcho-Fascism and Clerical Fascism - The best types of fascism, but I still prefer the Ayutthaya Kingdom over Phibun, and Habsburg Croatia over the NDH.
  • Manosphere - Thine fight against degradation and support for traditional gender roles is blessed, but thou art often degenerate.
  • Neoluddism - The industrial revolution was a mistake, but thou sadly don't reject the enlightenment (which happened before the industrial revolution). And Theodore was godless.
  • Hoppeanism - Ancap reactionary? Hmm...
  • Alt-Right - Thou art correct in some ways, but very degenerate at the same time. Please go outside and touch grass.
  • Alt-Lite - Thou art like the above, but weaker and spineless. Thou shall also touch grass.
  • Guild Socialism - Thou dost advocate the medieval days, but please rid thyself of that socialist filth. I care not for a peasant unless he serves his lord.
  • Islamic Democracy - Heading in right direction. Morsi is a reactlib, so he's a frenemy. Thy Turkish variant became a blessed Ottomanist, so he is good.
  • Christian Democracy - Also in the right direction.
  • Confessionalism - Same as above.
  • Esoteric Fascism - Fellow esoteric react... wait, WHAT?! Ancient Nordic aliens, that colonized Earth in the past and uplifted human tribes? Lost technologies of Aryans? Pagan gods as cargo cults of the aliens? Abrahamic Demiurge worshippers, that are slaves of Archon-lizards? Astral realm Hyperborea that is even more advanced than material civilizations? Please, take thine remedies, thou art queer and demonic. And stoppeth calling me a "cucktionary"!
  • Lys Noir - Mine... Anarcho-Communist son?
  • Libertarian Monarchism - Libertarianism is cursed, but I respect my king.
  • İttihadism - Thou art no reactionary but opposing him at the end was blessed.
  • Black Islamism - You believe in all this? Egads...
  • Pagan Theocracy - Those of us who want to return to antiquity support you, but those who want to return to the Middle Ages or 17th century do not.
  • Anarcho-Primitivism - Thou are following the most traditional way, but thou express no civilization.
  • Patriot Whiggism - Thou might be worse libtards than he is but thou are at least principled and worked with me against Walpole's corruption.

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Every single progressive, communist, liberal not mentioned above, but particularly:

  • Enlightenment Thought - I hereby challenge thee to a duel!
  • Neo-Enlightenment - Good lord!
  • Enlightened Absolutism - Why, just why, did my king betray me? I restored you against the Jacobins in Sicily though, VIVA TATA MACARONE!
  • Bonapartism - You are a one-man threat to the old realm. Bourbon restoration go brrr. (And hath completely embraced Christianity on thy deathbed)
  • Progressivism - I AM COMING FOR THOU!
  • Revolutionary Progressivism - Thou art a plague upon this land and its people. Thou poisoneth the minds of our children with thine degenerate ideas of "progress" and causeth them to grow up to be degenerates like thou. Thou art not even worthy of a duel. I will finish thee off on the spot. Begone, blasphemous scum!
  • Secularism - Thou deprive the populace of meaning and diminish their birth rates. I shall separate the neck from thy head instead!
  • Nazism and Fascism - Wicked modernist hegelians.
  • Liberalism - Have at thee, heritage-ruining degenerate!
  • Liberal Conservatism, Conservative Liberalism, Conservative Socialism, Neoconservatism, Progressive Conservatism, Anarcho-Conservatism - Thy arth all conservatives in name only. THOU CONSERVE NOTHING.
  • Old Whiggism - THOU CONSERVE NOTHING! I have no idea why they keep calling you Tories.
  • Homoconservatism - Thou art a traitor to conservatism itself! Damn, ye sodomites!
  • Democracy - As Fürst von Metternich said: "In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age"
  • Radical Democracy - Possibly the worst ideology.
  • Feminism - He gets it right, occasionally, but not always.
  • Radical Feminism - Hey wicked Lilith, is that your hellish demonic daughter?
  • Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism - Thou art probably the worst version of Libertarianism.
  • Pink Capitalism - Thou art a wretched merchant.
  • Marxism - Every prediction thou hath ever made was wrong.
  • Leninism - Damn you for killing the Romanovs and destroying Russian culture,replacing it with a simulacrum of “Soviet culture”.
  • Maoism - Never forget ye Cultural Revolution! Thou hast almost wiped me out of the Middle Kingdom!
  • Dengism - 法輪大法好，退出中共黨、團、隊保平安!
  • Left-Wing Populism - Thou art just a socialist in populist clothing.
  • Frankfurt School - A rebranded Marxist? Absolutely vile.
  • Hoxhaism - The monster that destroyed Albania! Thou art pure evil!
  • Vperedism - Abandoning the traditions of thy past will only result in collapse and violence!
  • Posadism - Aliens doth not exist and yet I am the "sky daddy worshiper". May ye perish!
  • Jacobinism - Where's thy jaw boy?
  • Kemalism - Cope and seethe when thy legacies art being ditched by my Turkish counterpart.
  • Futurism - Ah, the end product of enlightenment nationalism.
  • Revolutionary Techno-Progressivism - [Comment removed by moderator]
  • Anglican Theocracy - Thou art a heathen for allying with libtards to usurp my god-given right to rule England!
  • Whiggism - You treachous traitor stole my powers away to parliament then used them to destroy the last of my supporters' wealth by taxing their land, thou art the spawn of Satan!
  • Robinocracy - All thou wanted was to become king through wealth and parliament! I am the king by God something thou shall never be.

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