reactionaries
Old order defenders
Reactionaries are people who oppose political or social change, typically favoring a return to earlier conditions or traditional ways.
The term usually carries negative connotations, implying resistance to progress: The reactionaries in parliament blocked every reform.
As an adjective, reactionary describes such positions or policies: reactionary politics, a reactionary backlash against civil rights.
Politically conservative faction
- conservativesAdvocates for gradual change
- traditionalistsUpholders of established customs
- ultrasOrganized matchday zealots
- hardlinersUncompromising faction members
monarchists · restorationists · counterrevolutionaries · ancien régime · Bourbons · Tories · loyalists · aristocrats
Preference for existing institutions
- traditionalismAdherence to inherited customs
- monarchismAdvocacy for royal sovereignty
- clericalismClergy's political overreach
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
authoritarianism · nationalism · Toryism · orthodoxy · status quo · hierarchy · paternalism · patriarchy
Capacity to withstand force
- backlashStrong negative reaction
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
- retrenchmentReduction of expenditures
obstruction · regression · reversal · repeal · pushback · blowback · recoil · entrenchment
right-wing
Politically conservative faction
- conservativesAdvocates for gradual change
- traditionalistsUpholders of established customs
- ultrasOrganized matchday zealots
hardliners · monarchists · restorationists · counterrevolutionaries · ancien régime · Bourbons · Tories · loyalists · aristocrats · old guard
conservatism
Preference for existing institutions
- traditionalismAdherence to inherited customs
- monarchismAdvocacy for royal sovereignty
- clericalismClergy's political overreach
feudalism · authoritarianism · nationalism · Toryism · orthodoxy · status quo · hierarchy · paternalism · patriarchy · nostalgia
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- backlashStrong negative reaction
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
retrenchment · obstruction · regression · reversal · repeal · pushback · blowback · recoil · entrenchment · stonewalling
mobilization
Organizing for action
- rallyGathering for a cause
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- manifestoPublished statement of principles
propaganda · demagogue · agitation · faction · caucus · coalition · party · cadre · cell · front
- Political Factionsconservatives, Republicans, right wing, far right, hard right
- 1800s GermanyBismarck, Prussia, German unification, German Confederation, Congress of Vienna
- bigotsbigot, bigots, racist, racists, sexist
- factionsfactions, faction, splinter groups, splinter party, blocs
- Tsaristsroyalists, Nicholas II, Romanov, White Army, Imperial Guard
- 1848 RevolutionsHungarian Revolution, February Revolution, Roman Republic, Marx, Karl Marx
reactionariesprogressives
Social reform advocates
radicals · reformers · revolutionaries · modernizers · liberals
reactionariesradicals
Advocates for fundamental change
revolutionaries · Jacobins · activists · agitators · firebrands
reactionariesrevolutionaries
Those seeking systemic overthrow
radicals · subversives · dissidents · anarchists · iconoclasts
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