ITT: your favorite reactionaries
It's impossible to read one of his novels without cringing at yourself and your past actions. I've yet to read anyone who cuts deeper into the human psyche than this man.
ITT: your favorite reactionaries
Evan Kelly
Christian Sanders
read Jim "The Rock" Davis
Ethan Lewis
I like Carl Schmitt.
Jordan Adams
They are all worse.
Luke Hernandez
Reading Crime and Punishment in high school was one of the things that poisoned me on liberal/traditional ideology the most
Aaron Ward
Easton Wood
Nolan Morris
...
Levi Jackson
Was really mindfucked by these people.
Andrew Fisher
Post the one with gucci shapiro pls
Xavier Ross
Do pre-Marxist philosophers count as reactionaries? Most of them were ahead of their time. I have a hard time seeing Thomas Aquinas as a "reactionary".
Samuel Sullivan
Richard Wagner was a massive piece of shit, but I'll be damned if Tristan und Isolde was not magnificent and utterly ingenious.
Noah Adams
This really made me thunk about life.
Sebastian Harris
Ah American "conservatism" , because trying to mix up tories with liberalism would work just fine .
Chase Lewis
It depends. Plato was definitely a reactionary, even by the standards of ancient Greece but Aristotle wasn't.
Leo Mitchell
Special mentions: Sorel, Evola (Too much of an idealist though) & the madman that wrote Might is Right
Jason Flores
Also Heidegger
Austin Reed
Land for me, he's fun to read, although I still haven't tried reading him while drunk or on drugs.
Gabriel Howard
good taste user
Adam Turner
Heinlein I guess.
Luis Bennett
When did this ironic garfield fandom start? I don't have a problem with it but it's just too weird.
It doesn't count if you're a nazi
Zachary Rivera
this.
Angel Harris
Heinlein's pretty cool.
Leo Ross
Julius Evola 100%
holy shit fucking spooked piece of shit, full of ideology bullcrap.
Angel Ortiz
Jünger isn't a reactionary. Read all his works moron. smh
He like most people in Zig Forums rn changed a lot through the years. He matured, he was always a leftist but the reactionary ideology like nationalism, he got rid off later on in his life. Never liked the 3rd Reich either.
I know all of this because he is my favorite author, still to this day.
Jose Fisher
Jaxson Cruz
This
Nicholas Sullivan
I have too many
Levi Turner
Justin Smith
No, I’m going to have children, and those who oppose it can go fuck themselves.
We need more TPUSA memes.
>>>/reddit/
Evola was right about some stuff though. Also him walking around during a bombing raid “pondering the meaning of life” gives him Chad points in my book.
Dugin isn’t a reactionary. He’s just a Marxist-Leninist who understands that Marxist-Leninism is incompatible with Marxism, and fully compatible with nationalism.
Lind
Josiah Morris
I respect your like of all these people except Land, Evola, and the madman that wrote Might is Right.
Unfortunately, his idea of 4th generation warfare is the only good thing to come form Lind.
Carson Anderson
It’s a good concept because we can use it in class warfare. The goal of organizations should partially be to destroy capitalist political culture spooks that haunt so many prols.
William Martinez
Does it count?
Matthew White
Jünger wasn't a reactionary. I like the aphorisms of Nicolas Gomez Davila, because he's actually self-aware and realizes he's fighting for a lost cause and pisses on neoreactionary movements.
Chase Hughes
Aiden Hall
Serioulsy? He's one of the guys responsible for the cultural marxism conspiracy.
Wyatt King
Bill Hicks Alex Jones
Jason Martinez
Who edits these things? It's so well done
Isaac Williams
Wagner wasn't really a reactionary.
He supported social-democracy mixed with German nationalism, both of which were firmly leftist by 19th century standards. Anti-semitism was also not only present but actually common in the 19th century Left.
Third-Positionism is not reactionary.
For favorite reactionaries, I don't really have any. I guess I like Charles the I and II's goatee as well as the all-around cavalier style. I think the Tyrolean rebellion was pretty good, and I do think the decentralized, direct-democratic (in the forest cantons) ancien regime in Switzerland was superior to the attempts by the bourgeois liberals to centralize the country into a liberal democracy. So in that sense, I would support some sort of reactionaryism in Switzerland. To restore the landsgemeinde and a more confederal government. I also found the abolition of guilds in the French Revolution to be abhorrent.
This is all despite being a full-on supporter of guillotines and radical republicanism.
Then again, wouldn't that extend to say restoring the economic power of labor unions in America? What is the difference between a revolution and a restoration then? Wouldn't the entire old Left be "reactionary" in the sense that they want a return back to the traditional worker's movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Regardless, I have to say that despite liking the republicanism and symbolism of the French Revolution, I end up sympathizing and seeing more true republicanism in the Tyrolean and Swiss peasants who resisted the rule of a bourgeois republic.
Zachary Reyes
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nietzsche yet since he at least held some reactionary positions. Other than him, I've liked Nick Land and Carl Schmitt.
Ethan Hughes
After the mid-century revolutions, nationalism started becoming a conservative position. Certainly it was still associated to some extent with popular democratic, anti-monarchic movements (it hadn't yet exhausted its progressive content in the West), but nationalism was also associated with the German unification effort by Bismarck's Prussia.
It was a popular liberal position, when liberalism could still be regarded as historically somewhat progressive, but I wouldn't call it "leftist" per se.
Any source for this? Typically, anti-Semitism marked turns to the right for thinkers on the left during the time you're talking about (for example, the case of Bruno Bauer).
Cameron Morgan
This (I don't have any clue about what his political positions were though)
Also Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf has to be one of the best novels I ever read
Christopher Price
Also Camus (if he counts as "reactionary" for being anticommunist) and Nietzsche are alright. And i guess we can all agree on dostoyevsky
Isaac Hill
god I hate those fags. the first a gloryfied tzar cock sucker, who said that the peasants were little shits for not just accepting jeebus and quietly take tzar cock up their ass. His whole "deep human psychology" meme is wholly based on the emotional blackmail of christianity (if you hate seomeone for whatever motive you hate FREEDUMBZ). I will never understand his fame.
On a serious note. Why so many "classic" writers are reactionary? We all know the leftist art meme. But If I look at what are cnsidered absolutes of western classics there are quite a lot of right wingers. Dostoevskij, Balzac, Mann, Hesse, Kipling, pirandello, all considered big "classic" writers. Am I wrong in thinking they are somewhat overrepresented?
Liam Anderson
On Pain and The Worker: Domination and Form. Eumeswil (althrough this one is fictional he tells his views on Stirner here which are amazing), are all great books of him.
Levi Price
Miguel Serrano: Not my "favorite", but this man poisened me with cringeworthy views that made me feel like I had a holy duty to fulfill.
Blake Evans
I mean were "left wingers" even really a thing before quite far in the 19th or even the 20th century?
Jayden Cook
Tyler Murphy
His theory of Fourth Generation War is perfect though. It’s so good that it gives him a pass on his Cultural Marxism nonsense.
Luke Long
In 1948 and 1849 German Peasants and Prols lead a guerrilla movement to establish a Communist Pan-German National Republic. Sounds pretty leftist to me. And a tragedy they failed.
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Gavin Smith
You've never read dosto. He was one of the greatest critic of liberalism of the 19th century, only second to Marx. That's not even talking about how good of a writer he was and how good his characterizations are.
Hudson Turner
Why did ya pick a bunch of losers?
Good taste. Easily the most intellectual Nazi.
Kevin Morales
He is the closest real human being to Big Boss.
Jaxson Sanders
I have read the grand inquisitor and notes from the underground; my criticism stems mainly from the reading of the former. I didn't say he was a libera,l but it was too easy being a critic of liberalism by being a supporter of the fucking tzar. The jeebus phreebumb is something I read in the inquisitor and a classic theme of christianity, so when I read it I never even for a second thought he was supporting "liberal" freedom, istead I understood it as the classic reactionary christian point of "the freedom of choosing love": the part where the inquisitor accuses jesus for not accepting to turn stones ito bread is the key imho, it shows Dosto condemning material needs (which the great inquisitor supports) over spiritual need of love. I have no problem in admitting I'm a brainlet and have read only these two books and will be glad if you or someone points out if I'm wrong, honestly I know that if he is so admired I probably am wrong about him but cannot help feeling this way from what I read from him.
Aaron Butler
Old Dugin maybe, modern Dugin is pretty much a pro Putin shill. But not really, his understanding of M-L is on a textbook level, he has always been clear that his influences are the German conservative revolutionaries, Heidegger and the traditionalists (Evola and Guenon). That his brand of traditionalist anti-americanism is 100% compatible with Marxist-Leninist anti-americanism is a coincidence.
I'm old enough to remember the Garfield show from the 90's. Good stuff.
Joseph Reed
Every time a tankies unironically uses the phrase the Great Satan to refer to murrica Dugin becomes stronger
Grayson Bailey
I know. That's why I said:
Josiah Jenkins
Poor taste
Juan Walker
No one likes modern Dugin. Everyone who praises him is referring to Old Dugin.
Oliver Howard
He was a liberal individualist, for what I can get of his novels, although I remember reading he was enthusiastic about the Spartacist uprising.
Bentley Edwards
Could anyone recommended any actual leftwing/Marxist 'old' Dugin books. I've read through a lot of 'Foundations of Geopolitics' and I remember not enjoying it at all.
Jonathan Anderson
You can comb through his old website, is not much but here you go:
Ian Barnes
I do like hesse though