The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

It is plain as hell Johnson is no reactionary.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

This tradition was interrupted for several decades in mainland China, where the official stance of the Communist Party and the State was that Confucius and Confucianism represented reactionary feudalist beliefs which held that the subservience of the people to the aristocracy is a part of the natural order.

Tibbetts argues that such a relation between NCTE and Orwell's work is contradicting because ' the Committee's attitude towards language is liberal, even radical ' while ' Orwell's attitude was conservative, even reactionary '.

Also, in his work The Illusions of Progress, Sorel denounced democracy as reactionary, saying " nothing is more aristocratic than democracy ".

This period of time is called the Bourbon Restoration and was marked by conflicts between reactionary Ultra-royalists, who wanted to restore the pre-1789 system of absolute monarchy, and liberals, who wanted to strengthen constitutional monarchy.

In Britain, the perceived left-leaning nature of trade unions has resulted in the formation of a reactionary right-wing trade union called Solidarity which is supported by the far-right BNP.

Psychological egoists argue that although some actions may not clearly cause physical nor social positivity, nor avoid negativity, one's current contemplation or reactionary mental expectation of these is the main factor of the decision.

Teasing is the reactionary side of the comic, it limits itself to a shallow parody of physical appearance ; the side-effect of teasing is that it humanizes and draws sympathy for the powerful individual towards which is directed.

The leader of the historic Spanish reactionary conservative movement called the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right declared his intention to " give Spain a true unity, a new spirit, a totalitarian polity ..." and went on to say " Democracy is not an end but a means to the conquest of the new state.

As he sees it, this implication is conservatively used to reinforce institutions he regarded as reactionary.

One surprising example is Egbert Sjuck Gerrold Juckema van Burmania Rengers, the Orangist burgomaster of Leeuwarden before 1795, a notorious reactionary.

The ' reactionary right ' looks toward the past and is " aristocratic, religious and authoritarian ".

The SI believed that the notion of artistic expression being separated from politics and current events is one proliferated by reactionary considerations to render artwork that expresses comprehensive critiques of society impotent.

In modern France he is remembered as an ambiguous figure, while pétainisme is a derogatory term for certain reactionary policies.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

Fragmented by the war, Spain was destabilised as different political parties representing " liberal ", " reactionary " and " moderate " groups throughout the remainder of the century fought for and won short-lived control without any being sufficiently strong to bring about lasting stability.

This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.

The coup of June therefore was not a reactionary revolution, but only brought about a change in personnel.

He also talks about details of revolution and expropriation in order not to end in a reactionary way.

Despite the importance graphic designers place on his book Thoughts on Design, subsequent works such as From Lascaux to Brooklyn ( 1996 ), compounded accusations of Rand being " reactionary and hostile to new ideas about design.

The discussion of Common groundsel dates back to the 1st century and more recently, it is the subject of much contradictory and reactionary information about where it came from, how it got there, whether is it really hurting the crops, how to get rid of it, and how dangerous it is when ingested by various animals.

" While we have no illusions about how a Kerry administration would govern — absent mass pressure from below — and are not impressed with his delayed criticism of the war and his earlier commitments in favor of ' free trade ,' we also realize that the Bush administration is as reactionary as Reagan ’ s.

Percy Greg, like his father, wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary: his History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union ( 1887 ) can be said to be more of a polemic, rather than a history.

1997's Happy Town featured Sobule's most elaborate pop productions to date and contains songs about an eclectic range of topics including reactionary Christianity (" Soldiers of Christ "), the negative impact of anti-depressant medication on the libido (" Happy Town ") and what is either the only track ever recorded that uses Anne Frank's enforced Nazi-era hibernation as the metaphor for a love song or the only song about Anne Frank that couches her life and death in the terms of a tussle over loyalty between two lovers (" Attic ").

Not fictional was the column's presiding spirit, Colonel Sibthorp, an eccentric and reactionary Victorian Member of Parliament, about whom Wharton made a BBC radio documentary in 1954.

In spite of their divergence of views, he consented, at the urgent request of President MacMahon, to take office in March 1875 in the Buffet Cabinet ; but the reactionary policy of the premier led to a dispute between him and Say both in the press and in the constituencies, and brought about Buffet's resignation.

He was struck by people's misconceptions about Kipling, who many perceived as ( in Bellamy's words ) " one of the reactionary old guard, and therefore obviously a writer of no merit whatsoever ".

Ultimately, Evola would become disenchanted about the prospects of achieving a radical reactionary restructuring of society and would advocate that an enlightened or " differentiated " man should Ride the Tiger – the title of his last work – of modern civilization.

Although he considered Boborul to be a good piece of writing, he accused Caragiale of remaining one-sided: " and about the reactionary attitude, does it never lend itself to ridicule?

The authorities sought to maintain strict control over the thoughts of the prisoners, and forbade prisoners from keeping and reading books or magazines of the former regime, reminiscing in conversation about " imperialism and the puppet south ," singing old love songs of the former regime, discussing political questions ( outside authorized discussions ), harboring " reactionary " thoughts or possessing " superstitious " beliefs.

The struggle between them, whom Lukacs sees as the archetypical reactionary and the archetypical revolutionary, is the major theme of The Last European War ( 1976 ), The Duel ( 1991 ), Five Days in London ( 1999 ) and 2008's Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, a book about Churchill ’ s first major speech as Prime Minister.

" Another one of my projects was to construct a ring around the equator which would, of course, float freely and could be arrested in its spinning motion by reactionary forces, thus enabling travel at a rate of about one thousand miles an hour, impracticable by rail.

The published works of this period were true to pseudo-fascist dictator Francisco Franco's reactionary vision of a second Spanish golden age than to the material and existential anguish facing the majority of the country's population of the time.

A reactionary is an individual that holds political viewpoints which cause them to seek to return to a previous state ( the status quo ante ) in a society.

For much of the early history of anti-establishment leftist movements such as socialism and communism ( which was highly anti-clerical in the 19th century ), established churches were led by a reactionary clergy who saw progress as a threat to their status and power.

The reactionary classes, who are content with the status quo, would oppose the " progressive " revolution.

The bourgeoisie gradually began to lose its progressive character and became increasingly reactionary once it came to power ( since it began to support the status quo rather than seek further social progress ).

Held in the name of Ivan Pavlov it considered the status of several leading neuroscientists and psychiatrists of the time, including Grunya Sukhareva, Vasily Gilyarovsky, Raisa Golant, Aleksandr Shmaryan, and Mikhail Gurevich, who were charged with practicing " anti-Pavlovian, anti-Marxist, idealistic reactionary " science that was damaging to Soviet psychiatry.

Burke's traditionalist conservatism was more moderate than the continental conservatism developed by Joseph De Maistre in France, that upon experiencing the French Revolution completely denounced the status quo that existed immediately prior to the revolution ( unlike Burke ) and de Maistre sought a reactionary counter-revolution that would dismantle all modern society and return it to a strictly religious-based society.

Besides, beyond being reactionary on definite matters ( see the status of women in Islam ) and responsible for fanatical excesses against non-Muslim citizen ( such as the Copts in Egypt ), political Islam even defends the sacred character of property and legimitises inequality and all the prerequisites of capitalist reproduction.