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	'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>		'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>

	The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all[[fascist]]societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. ~~They~~ wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The[[fascist]]doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." ~~They~~ further elaborated in the political doctrine that[[fascism]]"is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that[[fascism]]was of the right, not of the left. World-war era[[fascism]]was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].		The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all[[fascist]]societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. they wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The[[fascist]]doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." they further elaborated in the political doctrine that[[fascism]]"is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that[[fascism]]was of the right, not of the left. World-war era[[fascism]]was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].

	== Differences compared to Fascism ==		== Differences compared to Fascism ==

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	'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>		'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>

	The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that[[fascism]]"is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that[[fascism]]was of the right, not of the left. World-war era[[fascism]]was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].		The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all[[fascist]]societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The[[fascist]]doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that[[fascism]]"is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that[[fascism]]was of the right, not of the left. World-war era[[fascism]]was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].

	== Differences compared to Fascism ==		== Differences compared to Fascism ==

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	'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>		'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>

	The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism "is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left. World-war era fascism was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].		The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that[[fascism]]"is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that[[fascism]]was of the right, not of the left. World-war era[[fascism]]was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].

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	'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>		'''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism\|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism\|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco\|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar\|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>

	The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism "is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left. ~~Fascism~~ was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was ~~not~~ found in ~~the period~~ prior to the French Revolution, ~~though there is some debate about this~~, ~~especially regarding~~ [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece~~\|Ancient Greece.~~]]		The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism "is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left. World-war era fascism was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was found in most periods prior to the French Revolution, most notably in [[Sparta]] under [[Lycurgus]], [[Roman Empire\|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]] within the writings of [[Plato]].

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 {{Nutshell|A reactionary always is responding to something negative that already exists.}}{{Nopic}}
-A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>
+A '''Reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'' previously held as standard within a society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>
-In [[ideology]], '''reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[Left-right political scale|right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas [[Conservatism|conservatives]] seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Shipwrecked Mind|last=Lilla|first=Mark|publisher=New York Review Books|year=2016|pages=xii|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary |title=reactionary|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary |title=reactionary |work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity).
+In [[ideology]], '''Reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[Left-right political scale|right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas [[Conservatism|conservatives]] seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Shipwrecked Mind|last=Lilla|first=Mark|publisher=New York Review Books|year=2016|pages=xii|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary |title=reactionary|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary |title=reactionary |work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity). Most reactionaries in modern society limit their actions to non-violent demonstrations in protest to changes that are currently in progress (such as widespread degeneracy).
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 '''Reactionary''' is also used to denote supporters of [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] administrations such as [[Vichy France]], Spain under [[Francisco Franco|Franco]], and Portugal under [[António Salazar|Salazar]]. One example of this took place 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''.<ref>[[Olga Ivinskaya]], ''A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak'', Doubleday, 1978. Page 224.</ref>
-The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism "is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left. Fascism was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was not found in the period prior to the French Revolution.
+The Italian [[Fascist]]s showed a desire to bring about a new social order based on ancient Rome (like all fascist societies) in their enthusiasm for a better Italy. [[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."<ref>Gerarchia, March, 1923 quoted in [[George Seldes]], ''Facts and Fascism'', eighth edition, New York: In Fact, 1943, p. 277.</ref> [[Giovanni Gentile]] and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism, and more veiled some aspects of [[Catholicism]]. They wrote, "History doesn't travel backwards. The fascist doctrine has not taken Joseph de Maistre as its prophet. Monarchical absolutism is of the past, and so is ecclesiolatry." They further elaborated in the political doctrine that fascism "is not reactionary in the old way but revolutionary." Conversely, they also explained that fascism was of the right, not of the left. Fascism was certainly not simply a return to tradition as it carried the freedom and Unity beyond even what had been seen in [[America]]. Fascism's intense [[nationalism]] was not found in the period prior to the French Revolution, though there is some debate about this, especially regarding [[Roman Empire|Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greece.]]
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	A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>		A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>

	In [[ideology]], '''reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas [[Conservatism\|conservatives]] seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=The Shipwrecked Mind\|last=Lilla\|first=Mark\|publisher=New York Review Books\|year=2016\|pages=xii\|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary \|title=reactionary\|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary \|title=reactionary \|work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity).		In [[ideology]], '''reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[Left-right political scale\|right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas [[Conservatism\|conservatives]] seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=The Shipwrecked Mind\|last=Lilla\|first=Mark\|publisher=New York Review Books\|year=2016\|pages=xii\|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary \|title=reactionary\|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary \|title=reactionary \|work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity).

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	A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>		A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>

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	A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>		A '''reactionary''' is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the ''status quo'', the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society. As a descriptor term, ''reactionary'' derives from the ideological context of the [[Left-right political scale]]. As an adjective, the word ''reactionary'' describes points of view and policies meant to restore a past ''status quo ante''.<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref>

	In [[ideology]], '''reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=The Shipwrecked Mind\|last=Lilla\|first=Mark\|publisher=New York Review Books\|year=2016\|pages=xii\|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary \|title=reactionary\|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary \|title=reactionary \|work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity).		In [[ideology]], '''reactionism''' is a tradition in so-called [[right-wing politics]];<ref>''The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought'' Third Edition, (1999) p. 729.</ref> the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas [[Conservatism\|conservatives]] seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=The Shipwrecked Mind\|last=Lilla\|first=Mark\|publisher=New York Review Books\|year=2016\|pages=xii\|chapter=Introduction}}</ref> In popular usage, ''reactionary'' refers to a strong traditionalist conservative political perspective of the person who is opposed to social, political, and economic change.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/reactionary \|title=reactionary\|work=Lexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary \|title=reactionary \|work=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> Generally, reactionaries are a heterogenous group composed of PaleoConservatives, "Evolians", NeoConservatives and DemoChristians (Democratic Christianity).

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