neo-reactionary

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From neo- +‎ reactionary, in the contemporary meaning popularized in a 2010 blog post.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/
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Adjective

neo-reactionary (comparative more neo-reactionary, superlative most neo-reactionary)

  1. (politics, chiefly derogatory) Reacting against the (especially liberal) values of the modern world; now typically seen as characterised by opposition to egalitarianism, support for strong centralised government, and espousal of conservative economic policies.
    • 1945, Labor Fact Book, volume 7, page 197:
      Following the outbreak of a revolution in Bolivia in December, 1943, the CTAL labeled the new Bolivian regime a "neo-reactionary victory" and pointed out that "their aim is undemocratic […]".
    • 2017 April, Andrew Sullivan, “The Reactionary Temptation”, in New York Magazine‎:
      Austria narrowly avoided installing a neo-reactionary president in last year’s two elections.
    • 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Neoreactionary thought contends that the world would operate much better in the hands of a few tech-savvy elites in a quasi-feudal system.

Noun

neo-reactionary (plural neo-reactionaries)

  1. (politics, chiefly derogatory) Someone who holds such views.
    • 1991, Z Magazine, volume 4, page 16:
      With the accession to power of the neo-reactionaries, Nixon and then Reagan, the timber companies and the "immediate gratification" right took complete charge.
    • 2013 November 23, Klint Finley, “Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries”, in TechCrunch‎, archived from the original on 2013-12-02:
      Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.
    • 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian‎:
      Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore.

See also

References

  1. ^ Arnold Kling (2010 July 18) “The Neo-Reactionaries”, in EconLog‎, archived from the original on 2019-07-01

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