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> Sure if you define anyone who wants to change things as leftist all revolutions are tautalogically leftist. Most people understand this to be the case, _unle
by atomi 6y ago
> Sure if you define anyone who wants to change things as leftist all revolutions are tautalogically leftist.
Most people understand this to be the case, _unless_ the revolution is _reactionary_ which is traditionally conservative.
> reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
- anm89 6y agoInteresting. Had never heard of that before but it seems to make sense in most cases. I still think american neo nazis are a counter example. They aren't really trying to go back to something that ever existed.