Reactionary

In politics, a reactionary is a person who favors a return to a previous state of society which they believe possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.[1] As a descriptor term, reactionary derives from the ideological context of the left–right political spectrum. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore a status quo ante. As an ideology, reactionism is a tradition in right-wing politics;[1] the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas conservatives seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.[2] A conservative might turn reactionary, when prioritizing older traditions over recently accepted ones.[3] In popular usage, reactionary refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of a person opposed to social, political, or economic change.[4][5] In the 20th century, reactionary politics was associated with restoring values such as discipline, hierarchy and respect for authority and privilege.[1]

Reactionary ideologies can be radical in the sense of political extremism in service to re-establishing past conditions. To some writers, the term reactionary carries negative connotations—Peter King observed that it is "an unsought-for label, used as a torment rather than a badge of honor."[6] Despite this, the descriptor "political reactionary" has been adopted by writers such as the Austrian monarchist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn,[7] the Scottish journalist Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie,[8] the Colombian political theologian Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and the American historian John Lukacs.[9]

## Contents

* 1 History and usage
* 1.1 Thermidorian Reaction
* 1.2 Restoration of the French monarchy
* 1.3 Clerical philosophers
* 1.4 Metternich and containment
* 1.5 20th century
* 1.6 21st century
* 2 Notable people
* 2.1 Austria
* 2.2 China
* 2.3 France
* 2.4 Germany
* 2.5 Iran
* 2.6 Italy
* 2.7 Japan
* 2.8 Russia
* 2.9 Spain
* 2.10 Switzerland
* 2.11 United States
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 Bibliography
* 6 External links

## History and usage

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.[10] 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.[11]

Several revolutions occurred in 1848 and early 1849, before reactionary forces regained control and the revolutions collapsed.

During the French Revolution, conservative forces (especially within the Catholic Church) organized opposition to the progressive sociopolitical and economic changes brought by the Revolution; and so Conservatives fought to restore the temporal authority of the Church and Crown. In 19th Century European politics, the reactionary class included the Catholic Church's hierarchy and the aristocracy, royal families, and royalists who believed that national government was the sole domain of the Church and the State. In France, supporters of traditional rule by direct heirs of the House of Bourbon dynasty were labeled the legitimist reaction. In the Third Republic, the monarchists were the reactionary faction, later renamed Conservative.[10]

In the 19th century, reactionary denoted people who idealized feudalism and the pre-modern era—before the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution.[12]

### Thermidorian Reaction

Main article: Social:Thermidorian Reaction

The Thermidorian Reaction was a movement within the French Revolution against the perceived excesses of the Jacobins. Maximilien Robespierre's Reign of Terror ended on 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor year II in the French Republican Calendar). The overthrow of Robespierre signaled the reassertion of the French National Convention over the Committee of Public Safety. The Jacobins were suppressed, the prisons were emptied, and the committee was shorn of its powers. After the execution of some 104 Robespierre supporters, the Thermidorian Reaction stopped using the guillotine against alleged counter-revolutionaries, set a middle course between the monarchists and the radicals, and ushered in a time of relative exuberance and its accompanying corruption.

### Restoration of the French monarchy

Caricature of Louis XVIII preparing for the French intervention in Spain to help the Spanish Royalists, by George Cruikshank

Template:Toryism With the Congress of Vienna, inspired by Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the monarchs of Russia, Prussia and Austria formed the Holy Alliance, a form of collective security against revolution and Bonapartism. This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in France when, after the second fall of Napoleon, the Bourbon Restoration, or reinstatement of the Bourbon dynasty, ensued. This time it was to be a constitutional monarchy, with an elected lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. The Franchise was restricted to men over the age of forty, which indicated that for the first fifteen years of their lives, they had lived under the ancien régime. Nevertheless, King Louis XVIII worried he would still suffer an intractable parliament. He was delighted with the ultra-royalists, or Ultras, whom the election returned, declaring that he had found a chambre introuvable, literally, an "unfindable house".

It was the Declaration of Saint-Ouen that prepared the way for the Restoration. Before the French Revolution, which radically and bloodily overthrew most aspects of French society's organization, the only way constitutional change could be instituted was by extracting it from old legal documents that could be interpreted as agreeing with the proposal. Everything new had to be expressed as a righteous revival of something old that had lapsed and had been forgotten. This was also the means used by diminished aristocrats to get themselves a bigger piece of the pie. In the 18th century, those gentry whose fortunes and prestige had diminished to the level of peasants would search diligently for every ancient feudal statute that might give them something. For example, the "ban" meant that all peasants had to grind their grain in their lord's mill. Therefore, these gentry came to the French States-General of 1789 fully prepared to press for expanding such practices in all provinces to the legal limit. They were horrified when, for example, the French Revolution permitted common citizens to go hunting, one of the few perquisites they had always enjoyed.

Thus with the Bourbons Restoration, the Chambre Introuvable set about reverting every law to return society to conditions prior to the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV, when the power of the Second Estate was at its zenith. This clearly distinguishes a "reactionary" from a "conservative". The use of the word "reactionary" in later days as a political slur is thus often rhetorical since there is nothing directly comparable with the Chambre Introuvable in the history of other countries.

### Clerical philosophers

Main article: Social:Clerical philosophers

In the French Revolution's aftermath, France was continually wracked by quarrels between right-wing legitimists and left-wing revolutionaries. Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, François-René de Chateaubriand—whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Catholic Church as the established church. Since then, France's political spectrum has featured similar divisions (see Action Française). The teachings of the 19th-century popes buttressed the ideas of the clerical philosophers.[13]

### Metternich and containment

From 1815 to 1848, Prince Metternich, the foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, stepped in to organize the containment of revolutionary forces through international alliances to prevent revolutionary fervor. At the Congress of Vienna, he was very influential in establishing the new order, the Concert of Europe, after the defeat of Napoleon.

After the Congress, Prince Metternich worked hard to bolster and stabilize the conservative regime of the Restoration period. He worked furiously to prevent Russia's Tsar Alexander I (who aided the liberal forces in Germany, Italy, and France) from gaining influence in Europe. The Church was his principal ally. He promoted it as a conservative principle of order while opposing nationalist and liberal tendencies within the Church. His basic philosophy was based on Edmund Burke, who championed the need for old roots and the orderly development of society. He opposed democratic and parliamentary institutions but favored modernizing existing structures through gradual reform. Despite Metternich's efforts, a series of revolutions rocked Europe in 1848.

### 20th century

See also: Philosophy:Reactionary modernism

1932 poster of the French Radical Party (PRRRS) against the attempt by the Laval government to replace the two-round system, which favored the Radicals, with plurality ("The two-round suffrage will overcome the reaction.")

In the 20th century, proponents of socialism and communism used the term reactionary polemically to label their enemies, such as the White Armies, who fought in the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. In Marxist terminology, reactionary is a pejorative adjective denoting people whose ideas might appear to be socialist but, in their opinion, contain elements of feudalism, capitalism, nationalism, fascism, or other characteristics of the ruling class, including usage between conflicting factions of Marxist movements. Non-socialists also used the label reactionary, with British diplomat Sir John Jordan nicknaming the Chinese Royalist Party the "reactionary party" for supporting the Qing dynasty and opposing republicanism during the Xinhai Revolution in 1912.[14]

Despite being traditionally related to right-wing governments, elements of reactionary politics were present in left-wing governments as well, such as when Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin implemented conservative social policies, such as the re-criminalisation of homosexuality, restrictions on abortion and divorce, and abolition of the Zhenotdel women's department.[15]

Reactionary is also used to denote supporters of authoritarian anti-communist régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under Franco, and Portugal under Salazar. One example occurred after Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On 26 October 1958, the day following the Nobel Committee's announcement, Moscow's Literary Gazette ran a polemical article by David Zaslavski entitled, Reactionary Propaganda Uproar over a Literary Weed.[16]

The Italian Fascists desired a new social order based on the ancient feudal principle of delegation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state. Benito Mussolini said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to call itself reactionary... has not today any impediment against declaring itself illiberal and anti-liberal."[17] Giovanni Gentile and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and veiled some aspects of Italian conservative Catholicism. In "Doctrine of Fascism", an essay written by Giovanni Gentile, but credited to Benito Mussolini, they wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken De Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in their political doctrine that the Fascist state is "unique and original creation", and that it is "not reactionary but revolutionary".

Although the German Nazis did not consider themselves fascists or reactionaries and condemned the traditional German forces of reaction (Prussian monarchists, Junker nobility, and Roman Catholic clergy) as being among their enemies, next to their Red Front enemies in the Nazi Party march Die Fahne hoch, they virulently opposed revolutionary leftism. The fact that the Nazis called their 1933 rise to power the Volksgemeinschaft (national revolution) showed that, like the Italian Fascists, they supported some form of revolution; however, the Germans and Italian fascists both idealized tradition, folklore, and the tenets of classical thought and leadership, as exemplified in Nazi-era Germany by the idolization of Frederick the Great. They also rejected the Weimar Republic parliamentary era under the Weimar Constitution, which had succeeded the monarchy in 1918, despite it also being capitalist and classical. Although claiming to be separate from reactionism, the Nazis' rejection of Weimar was based on ostensibly reactionary principles, as the Nazis claimed that the parliamentary system was simply the first step towards Bolshevism and instead idealized more reactionary parts of Germany's past. They referred to Nazi Germany as the German Realm and informally as the Drittes Reich (Third Realm), a reference to past reactionary German entities: the Holy Roman Empire (First Realm) and the German Empire (Second Realm).[18]

### 21st century

Main articles: Social:Dark Enlightenment and Nippon Kaigi

"Accessing reactionary and perverse websites strictly prohibited" - Warning against visiting reactionary websites in a Vietnamese internet café, though the word "reactionary" in Vietnam, used by the current Communist authority, may include non-conservative and non-fascist anti-communists, such as liberals and social democrats.

Japan's right-wing nationalist and populist movements and related organizations, which emerged rapidly from the late 20th century, are considered "reactionary" because they revised the post-war peace constitution and have an advocating attitude toward the Japanese Empire.[19] Israel's Likud government had been criticized as "reactionary" for attempting to reverse developments from the 1990s as part of a democratic backsliding process, in order to advance an imbalanced one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[20]

"Neo-reactionary" is a term that is sometimes a self-description of an informal group of online political theorists who have been active since the 2000s.[21] The phrase "neo-reactionary" was coined by "Mencius Moldbug" (the pseudonym of Curtis Yarvin, a computer programmer) in 2008.[22][23] Arnold Kling used it in 2010 to describe "Moldbug", and the subculture quickly adopted it.[21] Proponents of the "Neo-reactionary" movement (also called the "Dark Enlightenment" movement) include philosopher Nick Land, among others.[24]

## Notable people

### Austria

* Klemens von Metternich[25]

### China

* Zhang Xun[26]
* Yuan Shikai[27]

### France

* Joseph de Maistre[28]
* Louis de Bonald[29]
* Charles X[30]
* Joseph de Villèle[31]
* Charles Maurras[32]

### Germany

* Alfred Hugenberg[33]

### Iran

* Ruhollah Khomeini[34]

### Italy

* Monaldo Leopardi[35]
* Julius Evola[36]

### Japan

* Hiranuma Kiichirō[37][38]
* Yukio Mishima[39]
* Shinzo Abe[40][41][42]

### Russia

* Konstantin Pobedonostsev[43]

### Spain

* Juan Donoso Cortés[44]

### Switzerland

* Karl Ludwig von Haller[45]

### United States

* George Fitzhugh[46]
* Wade Hampton III[47]

## See also

* Anti-modernization
* Backlash (sociology)
* Fundamentalism
* Loyalism
* Nostalgia
* Palingenesis
* Radical politics
* Restoration (disambiguation)
* Revanchism
* Romanticism
* Rosy retrospection
* Royalism
* Ultraconservatism

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35. ↑ Jonathan Keates, ed (July 31, 2012). The Siege Of Venice. Random House. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-4481-3918-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=AwNCrIeE5BIC&dq=Reactionary+Monaldo+Leopardi&pg=PA191. "At Recanati, the family gathered at the funeral of the impeccably reactionary Count Monaldo Leopardi, father of Italy's greatest romantic poet, was scandalised by the friar's funeral address."
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37. ↑ Ian W. Toll, ed (September 2020). Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-65181-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=CLC6DwAAQBAJ&dq="reactionary"+Hiranuma+Kiichirō&pg=PT664. "Baron Kiichirō Hiranuma, a reactionary former prime minister, argued that accepting the American terms would obliterate the kokutai."
38. ↑ Gregory J. Kasza, ed (158). The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945. University of California Press. p. September 2023. ISBN 978-0-520-91379-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ujQEAAAQBAJ&dq="reactionary"+Hiranuma+Kiichirō&pg=PA158. "in the late 1930s, select elements in the reactionary “ idealist ” right (for example, Hiranuma Kiichirō), who opposed any radical restructuring of the state or society."
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42. ↑ Dennis Ahlburg, ed (July 4, 2018). The Changing Face of Higher Education: Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-99685-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=rwxjDwAAQBAJ&dq=Shinzo+Abe+"Reactionary"&pg=RA1-PT135. "In addition to linking the alleged 'order' to abolish HSS to the 'reactionary' politics of Abe Shinzo, a closely related secondary theme was that Abe was seeking to turn universities into vocational schools."
43. ↑ Michael Kort, ed (2001). The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath. M.E. Sharpe. p. 23. "Alexander relied on Konstantin Pobedonostsev, a steadfast reactionary who denounced democ- racy, a free press, public education, and even inventions with remarkable vigor"
44. ↑ Pablo Sánchez León, ed (November 27, 2020). Popular Political Participation and the Democratic Imagination in Spain: From Crowd to People, 1766-1868. Springer International Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 978-3-030-52596-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=p70LEAAAQBAJ&dq=Juan+Donoso+Cortés+Reactionary&pg=PA177. "This shift was closely linked to the reactions provoked in the Spanish public sphere around the mid-nineteenth century by the political and journalistic activity of Juan Donoso Cortés, a pioneer of reactionary thought who was countered in the press by progressive writers experiencing on their part a process of ideological radicalization."
45. ↑ Ideas Under Fire: Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity. University Press Copublishing Division. 2013. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-61147-543-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jo3hYavTpkC&dq=Reactionary+Karl+Ludwig+von+Haller&pg=PA178. "There were patriotic speeches and books were burned, including the Code Napoleon, the German Police Laws, and "un-German" books such as those of the reactionary Karl Ludwig von Haller."
46. ↑ Melville's Anatomies. University of California Press. March 5, 1999. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-520-20582-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ma8wDwAAQBAJ&dq=Reactionary+George+Fitzhugh&pg=PA56. "George Fitzhugh, the pro-slavery, anti-capitalist reactionary, published a caustic anti-anatomy four years before the collapse of the Union."
47. ↑ James S. Allen, ed (February 19, 2009). Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy, 1865-1876. International Publishers. p. 204. "General Wade Hampton was nominated by the Democrats on an outright reactionary program to run against [Daniel Henry] Chamberlain."

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* Extremism
* Fanaticism
* Fascism
* Feminism
* Fundamentalism
* Globalism
* Green politics
* Individualism
* Industrialism
* Intellectualism
* Islam (Islamism)
* Liberalism
* Libertarianism
* Masculism
* Militarism
* Monarchism
* Nationalism
* Nihilism
* Progressivism (Progressive conservatism)
* Radicalism
* Reformism
* Republicanism
* Social democracy
* Socialism
* Utilitarianism

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