Reactionary Liberalism
Not to be confused with Reactionary Libertarianism
"The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted."
Reactionary Liberalism, is an economically center-right to far-right, statist (but mostly democratic) civically variable and culturally right to far-right ideology who believes in a union of economic policies typical of liberalism (pro-free enterprise capitalist market economy, typically Classical Liberal in nature but sometimes it can be Keynesian or Social market economy) and a democratic system of government with reactionary and traditionalist social values, although a minority of them propose non-democratic forms of government. It is defined by it's belief that there should be a separation between Free-Market Capitalism/Liberal Democracy and Post-Enlightenment cultural views, which it deems as "degenerate".
Unlike most ideologies on this wiki, this one isn't a serious theoretical one or has many open advocates IRL, as the majority of the center right to right wing populist claim to be against liberalism. It mostly originates from insults of Leftists towards center right to right wing populist figures who seem to promote Neoliberal economics.
Personality and Behavior
Unlike most other culturally reactionary ideologies, he does not view the institution of Liberalism as contradictory to or incompatible with far-right social views, seeing social Progressivism as a problem separate to the system it exists in, which makes him somewhat of an "opposite unity" ideology between the Liberal Dynasty and reactionaries.
On a similar note, his cultural views set him aside from other liberal ideologies though sharing substantial similarities with Conservative Liberalism, albeit much more extreme. Older Reactionary Liberals tend to be part of the Christian Democracy, who believe that a liberal democratic system and strong traditional Christian society can be combined. Younger Reactionary Liberals very commonly are part of the Online New Right movements , tend to bitch and moan complain about "free speech" whenever they're censored by progressive corporations for their edgy behavior. They tend to rant about "Cultural Marxism" and "Gender Ideology" and how they want to take away their values.
Regional Variants
Brazil
Bolsonarism is an economically and culturally far-right ideology defended by Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters. He advocates many values associated with the Christian Right, being highly opposed to secularism. A core proponent of his vision is "making Brazil not a socialist country anymore", advocating that the Brazilian military regime (known for its numerous human rights violations) was extremely prosperous before democracy. He is opposed to abortion, gay marriage and essentially anything progressive, and is in favor of liberalization of gun laws, privatization of government industries and the laxing of environmental regulations, taking a strongly neoliberal economic agenda. He wants to align Brazil to be closer with Israel and the United States, and openly admires Donald Trump.
Chile
Republican Party was founded in 2018 out of the results of Republican Ideas, both created by initiative of José Antonio Kast, a former Independent Democratic Union partisan, after growing disappointed for the lack of a strong defense of the party in topics such as traditional family and opposition to progressive laws such as abortion and gender ideology.
Egypt
France
The Thermadorian Reaction was a period during the final phases of the Reign of Terror during the events of the French Revolution. It was a coup led by more moderate elements of the French National Convention, who denounced the tyrannical policies of Maximilian Robespierre & the Committee of Public Safety. After they subsequently lost support from the Plaineist deputies of the National Convention, the Montagnards & their Communard supporters were declared outlaws, arrested after a skirmish at the Hôtel de Ville, and executed. The Thermadorians then initiated a White Terror against those who were still loyal to the Montagnards, & barred them from receiving public office.
The regime itself, known as the Directory, established limitations to prevent one person from concentrating power, thus creating an oligarchy of five men in the process. For the most part, it was a relatively ineffective regime, & completely unpopular with the people. It was ultimately overthrown in a coup d'état by Napoleon Bonaparte & Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, who replaced it with the French Consulate.
Henry de Lesquen is a far-right figure, near non-existent politically speaking, with a racialist and national-liberal doctrine. He is also the leader and co-founder of the metapolitical think tank Carrefour de l'Horloge,he also have his own party: Parti National-Libèral (PNL). Other prominent figures that share his ideology
are other two of the seven co-founders of the Carrefour de l'Horloge: defunct Yvan Blot founder of the association Agir Pour la Democratie Directe which have the objective to change the french constitution into the swiss model and Jean Yves-Gallou that it is part of the party Reconquest.
Germany
Alternative for Germany is a National Conservative party in Germany created by Bernd Lucke in 2013. Originally starting out as a more softly Eurosceptic Liberal Conservative party, it starting taking a much more hardline stance in 2015, with the current incarnation of the AfD promoting anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti-feminist, and climate change denialist rhetoric, along with being more overtly against European integration. The party also supports an Ordo-Liberal economic platform, citing inspiration from Walter Eucken and Ludwig Erhard, and wants to install a Swiss-style semi-direct democracy. There was an even more right-wing faction of the party called "Der Flügel", with some of its members having ties to Neo-Nazi groups, although it was formally dissolved in 2020.
Alexander Gauland is German right-wing politician and one of leader of AfD party. He began his political career joining Christian Democratic Union. Gauland grew dissatisfied with policies of Angela Merkel, especially German economic aid for Greece. He then left CDU and founded Alternative for Germany. In 2014, party entered Landtag of Brandenburg with Gauland becoming the deputy. He served as co-leader of the party until 2019, first with Alice Weidel and then with Jörg Meuthen.
Gauland's views are socially conservative and economically liberal. He's known for his staunch anti-immigration stance, supporting Germany's and the European Union's borders. Gauland also attended PEGIDA demonstrations and praised the organisation. He's also known for his numerous controversial statements regarding Germany's past, including one stating that Germans "should 'be proud of' its soldiers in both world wars".
Italy
Japan
The Liberal Democratic Party is a right-wing,monarchist and the dominant party in Japan, with various factions ideologically diverse, the main faction that dominates the party is economically liberal, socially conservative and ethnonationalist.
Netherlands
Forum for Democracy is a right-populist party in the Netherlands, headed by Thierry Baudet. FvD are in favor of a stricter national immigration policy in which Dutch citizens would decide for themselves who is received. In combination with these measures, the party is in favor of receiving asylum seekers in the region and an active deportation policy of illegal immigrants, in which illegality is punishable. In addition, the party advocates a 'Dutch Values Protection Act'.
The party is in favor of semi-direct democracy and advocates the introduction of binding referendums and popular initiatives as according to them, power and functions are divided among the main government parties. FvD favors a directly elected mayor and a directly elected prime minister. The party also favors a government made up of apolitical experts and believes top officials should reapply for their position when a new cabinet is formed, his economic platform is in line with Classical Liberalism, primarily consists of market deregulation, lowering taxes and privatization of certain public-owned enterprises and properties (ex:Dutch public broadcasting Foundation), despite being considered a far-right party they propose the gradual legalization of soft drugs and even study the possibility of legalize hard Drugs also they're in favour of same-sex marriage. They also hold hard eurosceptic views, calling for an EU withdrawal referendum (Nexit) and focus on climate skepticism, ignoring the scientific consensus on climate change.
Lastly, the party holds a strongly traditionalist view on culture, with Baudet having outright said that they "fundamentally oppose the values of the enlightenment"[38]. A major part of their platform is based around wanting to restore old dutch culture and architecture. They have also gotten in trouble for having ties to the Alt-Right and white nationalists in the past, one particular instance involving the youth wing being hijacked by neo-nazis and Baudet refused to disown them, causing most of the "moderate wing" of the party to resign in protest and eventually forming a separate party JA21 in December 2020.
Poland
Conservative-Monarchist Club is metapolitical organisation founded in 1988. It sees itself as successor of interwar Conservative-Monarchist Club founded in Kraków in 1926. Contemporary club publishes Pro Fide Rege et Lege quarterly and owns internet portal konserwatyzm.pl. Said portal cooperates with Najwyższy Czas! and Myśl Polska newspapers. Club itself cooperated with many parties, including Real Politics Union and Congress of New Right. Since 2019, organisation is associated with Confederation coalition. However, Club's members also joined other parties - some were members of PiS and PSL. First Chairman of Club was Artur Górski, who later became member of parliament from Law and Justice party. Currently club is led by professor Adam Wielomski.
Club refers to its political ideology as Integralist Conservatism - its core ideas being: opposition to democracy and support for monarchy, Catholic Traditionalism, anti-socialism and support for economic liberalism, and Euroscepticism. Organisation is also Catholic nationalist and anti-communist.
However, under Wielomski's leadership club distanced itself from monarchism as well as anti-communism. Its website started to publish articles by left-wing activists - former member of Samoobrona party, Konrad Rękas and communist activist Dawid Jakubowski.
Spain
Salvador de Madariaga described himself as an organicist liberal," he was an anti ultilitarian humanist. His other views were anti-communist , anti-Francoist and described as a "moderate classical liberal", in Anarchy or Hierarchy he proposed a concept called "unanimous organic democracy", in which the State would not tolerate strikes or unions and would restrict the right to vote. After the end of the Second World War he defended monarchical positions for Spain (embodied in the figure of Juan de Borbón) and was opposed to universal suffrage . His thinking, which received criticism from the Spanish left during the Second Republic, has been described by Pedro Carlos González Cuevas as elitist. According to Herbert R. Southworth , Ricardo de la Cierva would have proposed Madariaga (whose attacks on various socialist politicians were used as propaganda by the regime) and José Antonio Primo de Rivera as the main inspirers of Franco's political program.
Turkey
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Relationships
Liberal Crusaders
- Traditionalism - Thou can't hast democracy without T R A D I T I O N!
- National Conservatism - A good ally to aid in the fight against degeneracy and socialism in our democracies.
- Classical Conservatism - Burke, Powell, Scruton, and Mogg, all of them art quite blessed.
Powell was too sympathetic to Russian commies though. - Capitalism - Any other economic system renders the realm destitute.
- Kraterocracy - Might does make right, divine right.
- Paleoconservatism - One of my best friends. Sometimes we get into arguments about the merits of free trade which contradict his love of protectionism, but otherwise, we art allies. (some of us are interventionists)
- Paleolibertarianism - Me but slightly more moderate and anti-statist.
- Libertarian Monarchism & Monarcho-Capitalism - Long live the Royal House of Liechtenstein!
- Reactionary Libertarianism - Fellow defender of Liberty and Markets.
- Reactionary Modernism - I like what I'm seeing here, be more open to liberal democracy and thou shalt be perfect.
- Neoreactionaryism - Thou art even better than the above and magnificent, please be more open to liberal democracy and thou shall be absolutely perfect.
- Alt-Lite - He often supports me and we tend to agree on various topics, but sometimes is too moderate. I'm also part of his congregation.
- Right-Wing Populism - Pretty good for the most part except for when he's too welfarist and protectionist at times.
- Timocracy and Plutocracy - An admirable alternative to liberal democracy, beggars that art dependent on charity shall not have the right to vote.
- Oligarchy - Another interesting alternative that Pareto and Thermidorians really admire.
- Liberal Autocracy & Dictablanda - More interesting alternatives.
- Constitutional Monarchism - Blessed form of government.
- Christian Democracy - Thou art Christian and Democratic? BLESSED!
Thou canst be a bit leftist at times though. - Korwinism - Me, but Polish.
- National Democracy - Also blessed, especially him .
- Hayekism - One of the wisest men!
- Crusadism - I wish neocon became closer to thee and started a holy war to defeat illiberal heathens.
- Modism - Religious? A social reactionary? Supports a democratic system? Favors capitalism too? My blessed Indian version.
- Neo-Ottomanism - Same as above! My blessed Turkish version.
- First Worldism - Ryan Faulk is a wise man.
- AfDism, British Reformism, Confederationism, Swiss People's Party, Zemmourism and VOXism - I vote and promote these parties, best Right-populists of Europe!
- Pinochetism - ¡Mientras Chile exista jamás será marxista!
I'm actually more culturally extreme than thee, thou did not drop enough wokes into the ocean. - Salazarism - My eternal appreciation for saving Portugal from Red tyranny.
- Jacksonian Democracy - Underrated president. He knew how to keep things under control.
- Mastrianoism - This is truly MAGA!
- Manosphere - Fellow defender of men against feminists who want to take away their rights and curse them. Also, thou art right about women.
- Maternalism - A woman's realm is the domestic one.[39]
Pardon me, but what dost thou mean with "an important role of women in politics"?
Doubtful
- Reactionaryism - My father doesn't understand me.
- Liberal Democracy - Liberal Capitalist Democracy is blessed, but everything else about thee is cursed.
- Classical Liberalism - The free market is great, but the Enlightenment led to complete degeneracy.
- Liberalism - Thou may give freedom to thine people, but thou art drunk!
- Conservative Liberalism - Pretty much me but too moderate.
- Authoritarian Conservatism - Be more open to liberal democracy, be less statist and thou shall be good.
- Enlightenment Thought - I have mixed feelings about thee. On the one hand, thou hath granted us great ideas about economics, individual freedom, and government. But on the other hand, thou art the source of the majority of the degeneracy that I hate. Kant, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Hegelians are great.
- Neoliberalism - Don't get me wrong, thine economics art good, but pink capitalism is degenerate.
- Neoconservatism - We were allies in the cold war but thou art too moderate culturally. Please be more like him. Still, Bolsonaro and Gilley admire thee.
- Anarcho-Capitalism - Utopic anarcho-liberal, sometimes can be quite degenerate.
- Hoppeanism - A better version of Anarcho-Capitalism I think. Why dost thou hate Democracy so much?
- Alt-Right - He has some good points but please stop engaging with fascists and embrace Free-Market Capitalism and liberal democracy.
At least the first...And thou art a bit degenerate in thy lifestyle. - National Capitalism - Blessed economic and social views, but why Nazism?
- Austrian School - Utopic Liberal, though he has many good ideas.
- Chicago School - Utopian, but thou have good ideas such as the voucher system. Thanks to thee, Chile used to be the most successful realm in South America.
- Ordo-Liberalism - Blessed economic views but too centrist.
- Reactionary Socialism - Thou would be blessed if only thou knew that socialism is ill for our society.
- Gaullism - Zemmour is very blessed, but thou sadly don't want to return to the glorious Thermidorian period.
- Trumpism - Bolsonaro and Najib like thee, but thou don't seek to go full reactionary and want to stay "conservative". And protectionism is foolish, free trade is needed for the realm's prosperity.
- Francoism - Blessings for protecting Spain from degenerate heathens but initially thou hath sided with the fallacious economic system. The Opus Dei, on the other hand, were splendid.
- Conservative Feminism - Thou claim to protect our traditions yet support nonsense like female suffrage or the right for women to work outside of home. Thy sister, however, is more tolerable than most of your family as she stands against modern degeneracy and for a return to traditional roles.
- Integralism - Goodness gracious, thou hate my liberal fellows so much, yet think I am the most tolerable one.
- Fourth Theory - ...I beg your pardon, what?
And why are you giving that weird look to Japan? - Welfare Chauvinism - Quite similar to a Christocommie in denial. Le Gallou and Gauland are definitely blessed, we can agree on that much.
Illiberal Degenerates
- Enlightened Absolutism - AN ENLIGHTENED TYRANT, MY NEMESIS!!!
At least he also dislikes the J*cobins - Radicalism - Degenerate who corrupted liberalism with his proto-cultural marxist ideas!
- Pink Capitalism - Thine belief in free markets doesn't make up for thy sodomy!
- State Liberalism - Not even thine economically model saves you. This individual is totally demonic.
- Cultural Progressivism - I hate thee so much for ruining the term "Liberal", now I have to call myself a "conservative" in order for Papa to take me seriously!
- Feminism - Follower of Lilith who hates men and wants to take away our traditional social norms!
- Social Liberalism - Sinful Cultural Marxist posing as a liberal.
- Revolutionary Progressivism - Extreme progressive who simps for commie heathens? Thou disgust me!
- Liberal Socialism - Center-left socialist in denial! By the way, how art thou a liberal?
- Conservative Socialism - Thou are just a fake traditionalist who blames liberals for all the troubles, not realizing that the socialism thou advocate is the basis of sinful wokeness.
- Third Way - Pinkcap as a Green beret.
- Totalitarianism - Very cursed! Democracy and limited government art blessed.
- Left-Wing Populism - Curse thee for trying to ruin society with thine cultural marxist policies! CURSE THOU LULA!
- Marxism - Absolutely wretched.
- Cultural Marxism - I shall decapitate with my sword these Post-Modern Neo-Marxist Chaos Dragons!
- Socialism - He's corrupting our society and destroying our freedom and liberty!
- Anarcho-Communism - Forsooth the most harmful ideology out there.
- Marxism–Leninism - Commies get burned at stake.
- Protectionism - Free trade is part of our heritage, actually.
- Distributism - Commies with a cross in denial.
- Paternalistic Conservatism - Literal commies with a cross.
- Christian Socialism - Honest commies with a cross.
- Liberation Theology - Definitive commies with a cross.
- Marxist Feminism - *Solaris.exe Intensifies*
- Peronism - Thou hath managed to revert Argentina from a first-world realm to a third-world realm.
- Chavismo - Same as above, except thou wert even faster with running Venezuela into the ground.
- Guevarism - RABBLE-ROUSER WHO TOOK HOSTAGE OF MY EMBASSY IN PERU!
- Jacobinism - A seed of evil, fortunately, I removed thy jaw.
- Bonapartism - We hath created the directory to stop illiberal despots and Jacobin madmen. Thou both ruined our heritage and became an absolutist.
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Further Information
Wikipedia
Note: This is a general list of parties and people who hold mostly traditionalist social views and support liberal democracy (mostly) and/or economics. How reactionary they really are is variable and debatable.
Parties and people
- Vilfredo Pareto
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- Forum for Democracy
- Vox
- AfD
- Najib Razak
- Chega
- Liberal Democratic Party
- New Right
- Liberal Union
- Recreate Greece
- Confederation Liberty and Independence
- Confederation of the Polish Crown
- Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Bharatiya Janata Party
- Social Liberal Party (2018-2020)
- Liberal Party (2020-)
- Patriota
- Salvador de Madariaga(In Spanish)
- Henry de Lesquen
- Republican Party
- Teresa Marinovic
- Popular Renewal
- Slovenian Democratic Party
- Thermidorians
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- Conservative-Monarchist Club
Articles
- The Reactionary Case for Democracy by Richard Hanania
- The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism by Osita Nwanevu
- In Defense of "Reactionary Liberalism" — A Reply to Osita Nwanevu by Bo Winegard
- The 'new right' is not a reaction to neoliberalism, but its offspring
- Liberalism as a reaction against the state
- The neoliberal far right in Poland
- Why Braunism?
- Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro Is the Fascist Face of Neoliberalism
- Bolsonaro and the rise of Far-Right Neoliberalism in Brazil
- Vox, From National-Catholicism to Neoliberal Ultranationalism
- AfD is a liberal party
- What Francis Fukuyama Gets Wrong About Liberalism by Eric Peter Kaufmann
- The League and the armed Liberism
- Reactionary Liberals Deflect Their Party From Its Origins
- Illiberal Liberalism: A Genealogy
Literature
- Les Racines du futur by Jean-Yves Le Gallou in collaboration with other members of the Clock Crossroad
- The Menace of the herd or procrustes at large by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
- Anarchy or hierarchy by Salvador de Madariaga
- L'identite de la france by Clock Crossroad
- Relationship between Neoliberalism and Hindutva by Shankar Gopalakrishnan
- The Wisdom of National-Liberals by Henry de Lesquen
- Natiòn et liberte:minimum doctrinal du Club de l'Horloge by Clock Crossroad
- La Preferance Nationale: Response a L'Inmigration by Jean-Yves Le Gallou in collaboration with other members of the Clock Crossroad
- A Reactionary Liberal:M.N. Katkov by Marc Raef
- Nueva Derecha: Una alternativa en curso by Andrés Barrientos
- El Libro Negro de la Nueva Izquierda by Agustín Laje and Nicolás Márquez
- La Batalla Cultural by Agustín Laje
- A Reactionary "Liberal" in the XXth Century. The Political Philosophy of Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddinh by Z Pető
- Deutsche Programm by Friedrich Middelhauve and others
- An Empirical Introduction to Youth by Joseph Bronski
- Conservative-Monarchist Club website
Channels
- Henry de Lesquen
- Carrefour de l'Horloge
- Radio Athéna
- Forum For Democracy International
- Fundación Nueva Mente
- IMPERA
- Libertando Peru
- Otto Guevara Guth
- Agustin Laje Arrigoni
- Konfederackja
- Grzegorz Braun
- Marion Maréchal
- Narendra Modi
- Alice Weidel
- EdgySphinx Archives
Videos
Notes
Reference
- ↑ Thermidorian Convention is considered a center party
- ↑ On the Ordonationalist Political Party: The French National Front and Hungary’s Fidesz, Dorit Geva
- ↑ Kast Party is said to be by many on the youtube right nothing more or less like the UDI in the past, same happens in Spain with VOX and PP
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ They praised Benjamin Netanyahu as one of the 12 national-liberal governments, some of them support Zemmour and Lesquen has said he isn't anti-semite but asemite
- ↑ Henry De Lesquen always said before and still nowadays that Marion Maréchal would have been better than Marine Le Pen for being president of the National Rally
- ↑ https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/politica-brasil/apos-convite-a-bolsonaro-patriota-expulsa-integrantes-e-afasta-mbl
- ↑ Jair Bolsonaro and Gulf states: a jewel of a friendship
- ↑ Bolsonaro praises Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile
- ↑ Black Guy Hitting on Girls (BGHG)
- ↑ Why I Oppose Eugenics
- ↑ Critical Age Theory
- ↑ Gerontocracy Versus Western Civilization
- ↑ A nationalist who actually cared about the well being of his own country would basically open the borders to guest workers and make all Americans live like kings. But despite what they say, that’s not what “nationalism” is. It’s an ideology for the small and fearful.
- ↑ Nationalism is another form of identity politics. A substitute for a healthy and meaningful personal life.
- ↑ The problem with nationalism is that it rarely ends up actually benefitting the nation.
- ↑ Populism Makes Worse People
- ↑ 1. As a fellow Palestinian American, it's depressing how much Ayman Mohyeldin's sense of self seems to depend on what the media calls the Nashville bomber. Last few days, he's tweeted more about this than everything else put together. Identity politics makes you neurotic and sad.
2. Israel Must Crush Palestinian Hopes - ↑ Towards an Enlightened Centrism
- ↑ Hitler, Demi Moore, and Other "Pedophiles"
- ↑ The arguments against incest seem problematic given current discourse. 1) the disgust argument could also be used against homosexuality, etc. 2) the genetic argument is eugenics. How does someone who believes consent overrides disgust and opposes eugenics support banning incest?
- ↑ "I’m also more anti-crime than my readers, favoring the death penalty, shooting fleeing felons, and mass incarceration. But also more pro-freedom in terms of plastic surgery, transhumanism, and a free market in human organs."
- ↑ The Reactionary Case for Democracy
- ↑ The Invisible Graveyard of Crime
- ↑ Fatherhood as Practicing Virtue
- ↑ I explain why the US will provide aid to Ukraine forever as long as it's willing to fight and why I'm becoming a feminist who believes in respecting women and protecting their rights.
- ↑ The Last Aristocrat and the Riff-Raff Revolution
- ↑ I’m no longer a transphobe. @BriannaWu helped me understand.
- ↑ Why I Used to Suck, and (Hopefully) No Longer Do
- ↑ Shut up About Race and IQ
- ↑ https://x.com/RenatoIMPERA/status/1798861481142018197
- ↑ The LDPR made the deceased Zhirinovsky into an warmongering AI
- ↑ http://andrewsolomon.com/articles/vladys-conquests/
- ↑ https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781487588915-002/html
- ↑ The Internet Versus Sweetbaby Inc (And The Journalists)
- ↑ "Gamers" Are The Biggest Threat to American Society
- ↑ https://youtu.be/2pbYnSWYqh4?si=rGw0wvpqpFsyZclC
- ↑ https://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2019-13/weltwoche-international/edito-thierry-baudet-die-weltwoche-ausgabe-13-2019.html
- ↑ See here and here