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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.

France

Louis de Bonald

Politics

Bonald's political philosophy rests on the assumptions of humanity's fallenness, the need for strong government to repress man's evil tendencies, and the belief that humans are inherently social creatures. He opposed the individualistic and atomistic tendencies of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. At the heart of his political thought was the idea that the family was the basis of society and that institutions should work to protect it in its traditional form. For this reason he opposed the secularization of marriage, divorce, and partitive inheritance. He was also critical of the Industrial Revolution because of its negative effects on traditional patterns of family life.


The sharing of power, as in a democracy, seemed ludicrous to Bonald, and the doctrine of the separation of powers tended towards anarchy. The monarch rules for the good of society and thus represents the general will, contrary to Rousseau; whereas a multitude of individual wills, even when united in purpose, do not constitute the general will.

Economics

Bonald was also an early critic of laissez-faire economics. In 1806, he wrote a treatise critical of usury, or the practice of lending at interest, and in 1810 he wrote a critical review of the French edition of The Wealth of Nations. He was likewise critical of Louis XVI's finance minister, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, a physiocrat who liberalised France's grain trade and supported the suppression of the trade guilds. Bonald criticised Turgot as a "fanatical partisan of a materialistic politics." Elsewhere he says, "[w]heat was not given to man to be an object of commerce, but to nourish him." Shaped by Tacitus and his condemnations of Roman decadence, Bonald felt that economic liberalism and unrestrained wealth would undermine the Christian character of the French people, and would lead men to become less generous and more self-centered.

Religion

Bonald was one of the leading writers of the theocratic or traditionalist school,[19][20] which included Maistre, Lamennais, Ballanche and Ferdinand d'Eckstein. The traditionalist school, in reaction to the rationalists, believed that human reason was incapable of even arriving at natural religion, and that tradition, the result of a primitive revelation, was necessary to know both natural religion as well as the truths of supernatural revelation. Bonald believed that the principles of good governance could be deduced from history and sacred scripture. His political thought is closely tied to his theory of the divine origin of language. Since man learns to speak through imitation, he believed that the first man must have learned to speak from God, who announced all moral principles to this first man. In his own words, "L'homme pense sa parole avant de parler sa pensée" (man thinks his speech before saying his thought); the first language contained the essence of all truth. These moral truths were then codified in Holy Scripture. From this he deduces the existence of God, the divine origin and consequent supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures, and the infallibility of the Catholic Church.


Bonald published an anti-Semitic text during the post-French Revolutionary period, Sur les juifs, in which he described Jews an alien race, describing them with the same racialized language he used to attack the recently emancipated Black slaves in the colonies.[23] In it, the philosophes are condemned for fashioning the intellectual tools used to justify Jewish emancipation during the Revolution. Bonald accused French Jews of not becoming "authentic" French citizens and of being a disruptive force in traditional society. Bonald called for the reversal of Jewish emancipation and endorsed new discriminatory measures, such as a distinctive mark which Jews would be forced to wear to identify them in public.

Metaphysics

While this thought lies at the root of all his speculations, there is a formula of constant application. All relations may be stated as the triad of cause, means and effect, which he sees repeated throughout nature and society. Thus, in the universe, he finds the First Cause as mover, movement as the means, and bodies as the result; in the state, power as the cause, ministers as the means, and subjects as the effects; in the family, the same relation is exemplified by father, mother and children; and in political society, the monarch as cause, ministers/nobility as means, and the subjects as effect. These three terms bear specific relations to one another; the first is to the second as the second to the third. Thus, in the great triad of the religious world—God, the Mediator, and Man—God is to the God-Man as the God-Man is to Man. On this basis, he constructed a system of political absolutism.

Germany

WIP

Italy

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.

  • 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.

Russia

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China

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Hungary

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Spain

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Thailand

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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.

Examples

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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Relationships

Blessed and redherbed

Questionable

  • Reactionary Liberalism - Why art thou a lib? I still admire that thou hath ended the Jacobin madness.
  • Reactionary Neoconservatism - Why art thou a cuckservative? I do prefer you over him .
  • Monarcho-Fascism & Clerical Fascism - Fascism is not the way.
  • Neoreactionaryism - Thou art blessed but please go outside. Your time on weird websites hath made you speak queerly.
  • 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?
  • Conservative Feminism - Some call thee a tradthot.
  • Conservative Socialism - A watered down version of him, not a fan.
  • 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 - Anacap 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?
  • Monarcho-Socialism - Why art thou a communist, mine king?
  • Monarcho-Syndicalism - Same as above.
  • Anarcho-Monarchism - Why art thou an anarkiddy, mine lord?
  • Elective Monarchism - Why art thou democratic, mine lord?
  • Libertarian Monarchism - Libertarianism is cursed, but I respect mine king.
  • Ittihadism - Thou art no reactionary but opposing him at the end by Enver was blessed.
  • Pol Potism - Thou art like him, but very, VERY dumb.
  • Black Islamism - You believe in all this? Egads...
  • Bonapartism - You hath undone the Jacobin madness, threw them into the rubbish bin, as well as restored the Church in France, but thy were still a follower of the enlightenment who destroyed several old realms. Zemmour likes ye, however, as does Maurras. (And hath completely embraced Christianity on thy deathbed)

Wretched and blueherbed

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 mine king betray me? I restored thee against the Jacobins in Sicily though, VIVA TATA MACARONE!
  • 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, heathen scum!
  • Fascism - Thou look to the nation instead of the king or God. Thy revolution will never succeed
  • Nazism - Same as above.
  • Anti-Fascism - If thou art really anti-fascist, thou would know fascism's alternative modernity is what destroyed traditional society. Instead of opposing the enlightenment that came down to fascism, thou wander as a mob of cowards attacking anyone that is merely conservative. By the LORD you must be snuffed out!
  • Secularism - Thou deprive the populace of meaning and diminish their birth rates. I shall separate the neck from thy head instead!
  • Liberalism - Have at thee, heritage-ruining degenerate!
  • Liberal Conservatism, Conservative Liberalism, Neoconservatism, Progressive Conservatism, Anarcho-Conservatism - Thy arth all cuckservatives. THOU CONSERVE NOTHING.
  • Homoconservatism - Do not thee realize that sodomy and tradition are incompatible, ye fool? I take great pleasure in shoving my bayonet far into thy buttocks so when I pull the trigger, excrements will come flying out of thy mouth. Oh, wait, excrement ALREADY comes out of thy mouth when you groom the youth into thinking thy treacherous ideology is in any way acceptable.
  • 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.
  • Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism - Thy worst version of Libertarianism.
  • Pink Capitalism - Thou art a wretched merchant.
  • Marxism - Every prediction thou hath ever made was wrong.
  • Maoism - Never forget ye Cultural Revolution! Thou hast almost wiped me out of China!
  • 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.
  • Post-Humanism - [Comment removed by moderator]
  • Anarcho-Primitivism - Foolish savage who calls me a m*derinist and claims "stone age most human history". The Earth is only 6000 years old.
  • Primalism - Thou art a savage beast! (Although I suppose that's not indecent for thee.)
  • Illegalism - Why don't thou respect nobility and religion, thou barbaric bandit?
  • Kakistocracy - This little fool thinks I'm a wizard that uses demonic magic!
  • Radical Feminism - Hey wicked Lilith, is that your hellish demonic daughter?
  • Barracks Communism - Nihilist communist who wants to destroy every tradition.

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Neoreactionaryism, Counter-Enlightenment, Jacobitism

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