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someone who wants the good old days back, minus the parts they'd hate living through.
means a person or politics that opposes progress and actively wants to return society to an earlier social order.
from coined from the french reactionnaire during the aftermath of the 1789 revolution, describing royalists who wanted the monarchy restored, not just the revolution stopped.
vs conservativeconservatives resist change, reactionaries reverse it
political horseshoeoften overlaps with radicalism in tactics, not goals
marx's usagehe used it as a slur against anti-industrial nostalgics