A reminder that "reactionary" doesn't mean "reactive", it means a desire to return to previous social conditions. It's not reactionary to tell people who advocate mass murder to get out. It's in fact reactionary to advocate for mass murder, seeing how that's been history's norm.
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It can be a good enough description to still be useful enough to use specifically over merely "Bad".
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seems like it must be since marxists are *the* most mad about reactionaries and their whole deal, like plastered all over the big manifesto, is the desire to return to pre-industrial communitarian social practices
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Yes, well, Marxists are just reactionaries.
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Even if this was not true originally (debatable), it became inarguably true by the 21st Century. Anyone still holding on to Marxism in Current Year when it has thoroughly refuted itself by attempting to implement itself, multiple times, is just a reactionary.
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is there a word that means nostalgia for a fictional imagined past?
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Hmm. You're still "just" a reactionary if you want to return to the status quo ante but are wrong about what it was like, or if you want to have some Man in the High Castle-esque "X past society, but in Y location" type of deal. Unless you think e.g. Wakanda is really real.
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Most people who want to return to the past did not live in the past and so are going to be wrong about what it was like, and those who did live will have selective memory, limited sampling, etc., and don't get me started on historians. So we have to allow error from the get-go.
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