The rhetorical change towards being counter-revolutionary is an important one and one I've started using a little more myself. In fact I wonder if abandoning labels like "neoreactionary" or "dissident right" and going with something like "counter-revolutionary" or "counter-revolutionary right" is better, because it draws attention to the fact that this isn't a phase from the regime that it's gonna grow out of, nor is it just the "inevitability of social progress". It's a top-down revolution
Great piece. Evola wrote concerning the left’s appropriation of the term “revolution.” Like the color red, they stripped it of its original meaning, one correctly used in other contexts; the completion of a cycle and reassumption of a prior state. A planet competes a revolution when it circles the sun; not when it usurps its place in a bloody revolt. Revolution is return. It is unfortunate that we must use neologisms. Counter-revolution is a political project centered on the rollback of a particular usurpation. For my part, I prefer “reactionary” for the general program.
Good article but I wouldn't really call the founding fathers revolutionary either. The American revolution was basically a conservative one, the colonists were trying to preserve their way of life they had for 150 years that the British parliament were trying to change for about 10 to 20 years prior. The British parliament were the revolutionaries and the founding fathers were the counter revolutionaries representing the American nation and it's way of life and fighting to preserve that. America as a nation wasn't created by the revolution, it was saved by it
It strikes me that the perennial problem with counter-revolutionaries is remaining lenient with their enemies for too long until it is too late rather than having the mindset:
Kill revolutionaries, behead revolutionaries, roundhouse kick a revolutionary in the face, throw a revolutionary baby into the trashcan, launch revolutionaries into the sun...
"You're not real revolutionaries. If this was actually a civil war it wouldn't be so uncivil so it actually can't be" Ken said with a smug smile a moment before his brains were splattered from a revolutionary's bullet. The revolutionary marveled at the insouciance of the glassy rictus grin in all its American Spectatorishness but had little time to reflect as he blasted the brains out of a dozen more counterrevolutionaries in quick succession before remembering that his/hir/zir dilation time was drawing nigh and that by using firearms the carbon tax he'd owe would grow. The revolutionary then switched to using a railroad spike and mallet to offset the carbon footprint. "At least that grin didn't call me a reactionary. I'd really feel mis-revolutioned and that would make all the difference with my rainbow revolutionaries who can't see colour. I prefer to be labeled as an Algerian Spanish American rather than as a simple American and that makes all the difference." It thought as it's birthing partner lactated red blood cells he had carved into his face that he had newly labeled as mammary glands.
Great write up. I'm interested in making videos of your posts that would include narration. If there is any way you can reach out to me, I'd love to discuss in more detail.
How is the FBI killing old people over Facebook jokes not revolutionary? The elected Spanish government before Franco was revolutionary even though it was the government. They released terrorists from jail and made them police officers, then let them kill opponents of the regime.
The rhetorical change towards being counter-revolutionary is an important one and one I've started using a little more myself. In fact I wonder if abandoning labels like "neoreactionary" or "dissident right" and going with something like "counter-revolutionary" or "counter-revolutionary right" is better, because it draws attention to the fact that this isn't a phase from the regime that it's gonna grow out of, nor is it just the "inevitability of social progress". It's a top-down revolution
I'm a super counter revolutionary
I want for things to operate the way they did 2000 years ago
Many may die but it is a worthwhile sacrifice
Great piece. Evola wrote concerning the left’s appropriation of the term “revolution.” Like the color red, they stripped it of its original meaning, one correctly used in other contexts; the completion of a cycle and reassumption of a prior state. A planet competes a revolution when it circles the sun; not when it usurps its place in a bloody revolt. Revolution is return. It is unfortunate that we must use neologisms. Counter-revolution is a political project centered on the rollback of a particular usurpation. For my part, I prefer “reactionary” for the general program.
It stems from jealousy, anger, and poor paternal relationships. They’re trying to fill a void that can’t be filled in this world
Good article but I wouldn't really call the founding fathers revolutionary either. The American revolution was basically a conservative one, the colonists were trying to preserve their way of life they had for 150 years that the British parliament were trying to change for about 10 to 20 years prior. The British parliament were the revolutionaries and the founding fathers were the counter revolutionaries representing the American nation and it's way of life and fighting to preserve that. America as a nation wasn't created by the revolution, it was saved by it
It strikes me that the perennial problem with counter-revolutionaries is remaining lenient with their enemies for too long until it is too late rather than having the mindset:
Kill revolutionaries, behead revolutionaries, roundhouse kick a revolutionary in the face, throw a revolutionary baby into the trashcan, launch revolutionaries into the sun...
"You're not real revolutionaries. If this was actually a civil war it wouldn't be so uncivil so it actually can't be" Ken said with a smug smile a moment before his brains were splattered from a revolutionary's bullet. The revolutionary marveled at the insouciance of the glassy rictus grin in all its American Spectatorishness but had little time to reflect as he blasted the brains out of a dozen more counterrevolutionaries in quick succession before remembering that his/hir/zir dilation time was drawing nigh and that by using firearms the carbon tax he'd owe would grow. The revolutionary then switched to using a railroad spike and mallet to offset the carbon footprint. "At least that grin didn't call me a reactionary. I'd really feel mis-revolutioned and that would make all the difference with my rainbow revolutionaries who can't see colour. I prefer to be labeled as an Algerian Spanish American rather than as a simple American and that makes all the difference." It thought as it's birthing partner lactated red blood cells he had carved into his face that he had newly labeled as mammary glands.
Great write up. I'm interested in making videos of your posts that would include narration. If there is any way you can reach out to me, I'd love to discuss in more detail.
> Real people know what to oppose.
Not really. They tend to have a vague idea of what the problem is.
How is the FBI killing old people over Facebook jokes not revolutionary? The elected Spanish government before Franco was revolutionary even though it was the government. They released terrorists from jail and made them police officers, then let them kill opponents of the regime.
> Your example is from Spain. I rather tend to think in terms of the American Revolution, you know, the country that’s the subject matter.
Being successful requires learning from history, and you self-sabotage by limiting your learning to the history of a single country.