Reactionary Modernism

Reactionary Modernism
"There is no such thing as modernity in general. There are only national societies, each of which becomes modern in its own fashion."
Basic Information
Aliases	Reaction through technology Anti-Enlightenment Modernism Positive Reactionaryism Technological Romanticism Techno-Aristocracy Pragmatic Reactionary Gamer reactionary Crypto-Reactionaryism Far-Right Reformism LITERALLY GMOS AND 5G!!! Reactionary Technocracy Religious NRx (some) Iron Dimon Your brain on Paradox Interactive Warhammer 40k fandom Reactionary Meta-Modernism Alternative Modernism (Some) Literally Highfleet Autodale Model Fully Automated Ascetic Straight Space Crusadism The guy who makes the Little Dark Age edits Saudi Arabia model Ultrakill Model Self-proclaimed chud
Alignments	Non-Quadrant  AuthUnity(Many) Culturally Reactionary Culturally Alternative Modernist  Religious Reactionary Quasi-Fascists Esoteric (Some)  Transhumanists(Some)
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Anti-Liberalism Byzantine Model Crusadism Conservative Revolution Industrialism Jüngerism Romanticism Schmittianism Spenglerism Volkism
Influenced	Francoism Khomeinism Modism Nazism Network Monarchy (some)
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	Americas Terry A. Davis (1969-2018) USA Nick Fuentes (1998-) USA Europe Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) France Alexander III (1845-1894) Russia Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911) Russia Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827-1907) Russia Francisco Franco (1892-1975) Spain Arno Breker (1900-1991) Germany Albert Speer (1905-1981) Germany Dmitry Medvedev (1965-) Russia (Debatably) Asia Zeng Guofan (1811-1872) China Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885) China Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) China Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909) China Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) Turkey Yuan Shikai (1859-1916) China Ebrahim Raisi (1960-) Iran
Notable Examples	Holy Roman Empire under Winston Churchill's reign (Fictional, 2011, Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song)
Variations
Sub-Ideologies	Positive Reactionaryism Christian Theocracy Maternalism Noocracy Stoicism Traditionalism Pragmatic Reactionaryism Neo-Mercantilism Authoritarian Conservatism Developmental Economics Industrialism Military Industrial Complex Nanotechnology Pragmatism Technocracy Technological Romanticism Aristocracy Conservative Revolution Eco-Reactionaryism Idealism Mysticism Noocracy Romanticism Technocracy Transhumanism (some)
Regional Variants	Alexander III Thought Authoritarian Conservatism Authoritarian Fiscal Conservatism Great Russian Chauvinism Industrialism Kraterocracy (Alexander III himself) Militarisation Orthodox Theocracy Police Statism Protectionism Reactionaryism Russification State Capitalism Tsarism Self-Strengthening Movement Absolute Monarchism Authoritarian Conservatism Confucianism Industrialism Meritocracy Militarism Right-Reformism Scientocracy Westernization
Character Information
Likes	Technology Modernism without Enlightenment Engineering Spiritualism Religion Great empires Terry A. Davis and TempleOS Gaming Combined Aesthetics Arno Breker MIT Aryan Classic memes Soyjak.party The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Dislikes	Rationalism (sometimes) The Enlighenment Cultural Liberalism Whig Historiography Social progress Entartete Kunst Materialism (mostly)
Song	Nightmare - Plenka Нас не догонят Carpenter Brut - Roller Mobster Carpenter Brut - Le Perv Mr. Kitty - After Dark Tanc a Lelek Oligarkh - Forgive us Orzenilied by ODDstan Raubritter • Pfadfinderlied Kavinsky - Protovision Kavinsky - Nightcall Justice Stress - † Grey Army - Underrail CK2 Main Theme - Full Plate Metal OST Curta'n Wall - Fear of god

"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity."

Terry A. Davis

Reactionary Modernism is a culturally right-wing, pro-technology, and in other aspects mostly varied ideology that is the son of Reactionaryism. Reactionary Modernism believes that the rejection of culturally liberal enlightenment values and the support of technological advancement are not contradictory but rather complementary.

History

Reactionary Modernism in Europe

Jeffrey Herf coined the term Reactionary Modernism in order to discuss the paradoxical European enthusiasm for Totalitarianism & Völkish nationalism, yet also wanted new technological and political innovations.

Reactionary Modernism has been explored as a theme in both literature and in broader political culture in places like Great Britain, Romania, Greece, Sweden, and Spain. It has also been used to acknowledge the European philosophical, cultural & political thought during the time in which Fascism was on the rise.

They are also often very spiritual, believing in many belief systems ranging from deism/pantheism to paganism to any of the Abrahamic religions, which they believe to be necessary for building a harmonious and strong society. They additionally emphasize everyone abiding by the laws of nature.

Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Pobedonostsev held the view that human nature is sinful, rejecting the ideals of freedom and independence as dangerous delusions of nihilistic youth.

In his "Reflections of a Russian Statesman" (1896), he promoted autocracy and condemned elections, representation and democracy, the jury system, the press, free education, charities, and social reforms. He despised representative government, and denounced the notion of an all-Russian Parliament. He also condemned Social Darwinism as an erroneous generalisation of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

In the early years of the reign of Alexander II, Pobedonostsev maintained, though keeping aloof from the Slavophiles, that Western institutions were radically bad in themselves and totally inapplicable to Russia since they had no roots in Russian history and culture and did not correspond to the spirit of Russian people. In that period, he contributed several papers to Alexander Herzen's radical periodical Voices from Russia.

He denounced democracy as "the insupportable dictatorship of vulgar crowd". He argued that parliaments, trial by jury, freedom of the press, and secular education were undesirable alien nostrums. He subjected all of them to a severe analysis in his Reflections of a Russian Statesman. He once stated that Russia should be "frozen in time", showing his undivided commitment to autocracy.

To these dangerous products of Western thought he found a counterpoise in popular vis inertiae, and in the respect of the masses for institutions developed slowly and automatically during the past centuries of national life. In his view, human society evolves naturally, just like a tree grows. The human mind is not able to perceive the logic of social development. Any attempt at reforming society is an act of violence and a crime. Among the practical deductions drawn from these premises is the necessity of preserving autocratic power, and of fostering among the people the traditional veneration for the ritual of the national Church.

Antisemitism

Pobedonostsev particularly advised the anti-Jewish measures taken during Alexander III's administration. These began with the temporary "May Laws" that banned Jews from rural areas and shtetls even within the Pale of Settlement. The May Laws did not lapse; further policies led to deportations of Jews from large cities, enrollment quotas in public education, and a proscription against voting in local elections.

His anti-Jewish measures, at least, may have stemmed from a personal motive. British author Arnold White, interested in Jewish agricultural colonisation in Argentina, visited Pobedonostsev with credentials from Baron de Hirsch; Pobedonostsev said to him: "The characteristics of the Jewish race are parasitic; for their sustenance they require the presence of another race as "host" although they remain aloof and self-contained. Take them from the living organism, put them on a rock, and they die. They cannot cultivate the soil." He was also by 1894 credited (dubiously) with illustrating the goal of his anti-Jewish measures as making "a third of Jews die out, a third move out, and a third dissolve tracelessly into the surrounding population" (Russian: "Одна треть вымрет, одна выселится, одна треть бесследно растворится в окружающем населении"). He was also a supporter of Baron Maurice de Hirsch's efforts for Jewish colonization in Argentina.

Alexander III

The future Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias was born Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov in St Petersburg to Tsar Alexander II and Maria von Hesse-Darmstadt. As he was not the eldest son there was initially little expectation that he would ever accede to the throne and so his education was primarily a military one, based on the assumption that, in keeping with tradition, like other younger brothers before him, the army would be his career. However, in 1865 his elder brother Nicholas died and young Alexander suddenly became heir to the Russian throne. The following year he married Princess Dagmar of Denmark, a petite princess with soulful eyes who stood in stark contrast to her muscular 6ft 3in husband. The two were as unalike as two people could be, in personality as well as appearance. She was beautiful and delicate, he was towering and powerful; she was polite, charming and comfortable in high society circles, Alexander was reserved, blunt and detested the snobbery and shallowness of the elite class. Yet, the two had the happiest of marriages. Whereas his father was known for his marital infidelities, Alexander III never took a mistress and would have recoiled at the very thought. The two were extremely devoted and attached to each other and would remain so throughout their lives.

As he prepared to one day assume the throne, Alexander gained extensive first-hand experience in both military affairs and civil administration. He saw service in the Russo-Turkish War, sat in on meetings of the Council of Ministers and participated in the activities of the Supreme Administrative Commission. He was already very familiar with the workings of the Russian state and the demands of power as well as having secured the succession with the birth of his first son (Nicholas II) by the time the life of Tsar Alexander II came to a violent end when he was assassinated by bomb-wielding revolutionaries on March 1, 1881. On that day his son became Emperor Alexander III and a month later he issued a manifesto, penned with the help of noted monarchist Konstantin Pobedonostsev, in which he reiterated his commitment to maintaining the autocracy. He made it clear that the Russian Empire was an absolute monarchy based on the sacred tenets of the Orthodox Church and that this core of their nation would be defended, no challenge to it would go unanswered and no attack on it would go unpunished.

He increased the powers of local authorities to deal with subversives, strengthened censorship to block the spread of revolutionary writings and encouraged the development of the Okhrana, usually labeled as the Tsarist "secret police". All of that is true but it is also true that those who emphasize those actions intentionally belittle the other side of the story. Alexander III had watched his father issue numerous liberal reforms and he ended up being blown to pieces for it. One might accuse him of acting out of fear if Alexander II had been assassinated by conservatives or reactionaries but no, he was killed revolutionaries who felt he had not gone far enough fast enough. This was the lesson Alexander III took from the reign of his father. He realized the incontestable truth about liberal revolutionaries; that when people are seeking to create a paradise on earth they will never achieve it and so will never stop demanding more changes in their futile effort to make the impossible possible. Give them one thing and they demand something else, give them that and they demand still more and so on. It will never be enough because their ultimate goal can never be reached. Alexander III realized this and simply decided he would not play their game.

This did not mean that the Tsar was opposed to any and all change; he broke with the majority of conservative opinion for example when he established the office of Land Captain in 1889 in order to ensure that justice was fairly administered to the rural peasantry. What he opposed was revolution and subversion and like any good Russian tsar, his reign hearkened back to the slogan of Nicholas I, “Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality”. This has led many to criticize him for an increase in discrimination against Catholics (mostly in Poland) and pogroms against Jews. What many fail to grasp though is that a pogrom is, by definition, a spontaneous rather than a directed or coordinated event. Alexander III was perfectly willing to tolerate minority peoples and religions in the Russian Empire but he was also adamant that his was a Russian Empire and non-Orthodox faiths were forbidden to proselytize. It must be pointed out that this was once common in virtually every other country, Catholic or Protestant. It only seemed outrageous when Russia did it because so many western nations had ceased taking their religion very seriously. “Live and let live” is easier than converting people, particularly if you are not exactly certain that “your truth” is the true one, and as the 20th Century approached many were not.

In secular affairs, the idea that Russia under Alexander III was some sort of stagnant, reactionary backwater is totally untrue. Again, he was not averse to any change, he was only averse to changes which threatened the “soul” of Russia. As part of a number of reforms to improve the economy and recover from the war with Turkey he abolished the “soul tax” in 1887, cut taxes for the peasants and enacted child labor laws, forbidding children under 12 from working and reducing the number of hours children under 15 could work. In the burgeoning factories of Russia strikes were illegal but an official inspector of factories was set up to ensure that proper working conditions were maintained. As is always the case, not all of the new regulations were obeyed and no bureaucracy can prevent every problem but it shows that the Tsar was not determined to keep everything exactly as it had always been. If a good case could be made for changes that would benefit the Russian people, he willingly accepted them. Domestic industry was protected from foreign competition, railroads were built and a trade deficit became a trade surplus. Russia may not have been modernizing as fast as some wished but it undoubtedly was modernizing.

When it came to his private life, the stern, imposing autocrat was the quintessential “gentle giant”. Usually reserved in public, around his family Alexander was a fun and playful family man. He preferred to eat simple food with the servants in the kitchen to grand banquets and would often entertain guests by his displays of great strength such as twisting fireplace pokers into bizarre shapes or lifting his wife with one hand and sister-in-law with the other, at arms length, up to shoulder level. He loved the outdoors and was fond of simply throwing a hunk of bread and a sausage into a sack and walking out in the vast Russian wilderness. Alexander was at his most jovial around small children. He would often take them skating but would go out to the pond to “test” the ice first. Walking out onto the frozen water, he would look back to make sure his tiny audience was watching then jump and stomp down as hard as he could, usually breaking through to the icy water immediately at which point Tsar and children alike would howl with laughter -his real intention all along. Of his children the Grand Duke Mikhail was his obvious favorite and the Tsar, sadly, always considered his heir Nicholas something of a disappointment. He worried that he lacked the strength to rule but, rather than increasing efforts to prepare him for the throne, this caused him to exclude Nicholas from state affairs which only increased his inexperience when his time to rule came.

In the area of foreign policy, Alexander III took a very active role and decisive leadership was called for as Russia stood diplomatically isolated at the beginning of his reign after a crisis in the Balkans had upset everyone. In June of 1881 he signed on to the “Three Emperors’ Alliance” which was a 3-year agreement that bound the German, Austrian and Russian emperors to remain neutral if any other member went to war and to maintain the status quo in the Balkans. In 1884 the Tsar renewed the alliance, despite his dislike of the Germans but in 1887 he refused to do so again. This was largely due to events in Bulgaria which revealed that Austria and Russia had conflicting interests in the Balkans and that, when it came down to it, Germany would side with Austria rather than Russia. Germany did not wish to choose between her two allies but when a pro-Austrian Coburg was chosen for the throne of re-emerging Bulgaria the Tsar was perturbed and demanded that Germany choose; Austria or Russia. Not surprisingly, Germany chose Austria. Some efforts were made to maintain some agreement between the two countries but Kaiser Wilhelm II finally dispensed with that as well and Russia was alone again on the international stage.

The result was the negotiation and finally the signing of one of the most shocking alliances of the time. In 1894 Russia formally became an ally of the French Third Republic. Some had advocated this for some time since France had long been a major source of investment in Russia but by the new treaty Russia agreed to support France if she were ever attacked by Germany and in return France agreed to support Russia were she to be attacked by Germany or by Austria. Today most histories make little mention of what a stunning move this was. Russia, the most autocratic, devoutly religious absolute monarchy in Europe and France, the most liberal, anti-clerical and proudly revolutionary republic in Europe had pledged to go to war on behalf of each other. True, given the tensions that already existed with Britain, France was the only available option among the major world powers but still, this was a shocking turn of events. France was such an avowedly revolutionary and republican society that even the liberal Kingdom of Italy considered her a threatening source of subversive behavior. Another illustration is that, in Russia, singing the French national anthem, the revolutionary song “La Marseillaise”, was illegal due to its celebration of violent rebellion. Whether this treaty was ultimately to the benefit of Russia remains a debatable point. It was not fully invoked until the outbreak of World War I and while Russia certainly benefited from Germany having to fight on two fronts, it was not enough to save the Russian Empire and the French Republic was, shall we say, less than mournful to see Imperial Russia collapse.

However, all of that was still many years in the future. There was no hint of anything collapsing during the reign of Tsar Alexander III. Despite some setbacks that were beyond the control of the Tsar (such as a terrible famine) the reign of Alexander III was one of expansion for Russia. Influence in the Balkans had been somewhat halted but Russian influence in east and central Asia continued to move forward. This was the cause of the tension with Great Britain since, as Russian power approached ever closer to Afghanistan, the British became increasingly worried about the security of their Empire of India. In 1885 fighting broke out between the Russians and Afghans and many feared Britain would become militarily involved as well but, thankfully, a diplomatic solution was found. Alexander III was as supportive as anyone of increasing Russian influence but he was no warmonger and knew that Russia need to focus her strength on the growing pains of industrialization and modernity rather than foreign military adventures. A treaty with China secured a foothold in Turkestan for Russia and construction began on the Trans-Siberian railway that would prove so vital to the further development of the country.

In 1888, near Borki, the train Alexander III and his family were riding in derailed in a horrendous crash. The Tsar, like Hercules taking the place of Atlas, actually held up the entire collapsed roof of the imperial saloon car until help arrived, saving the lives of his wife and children. It was his most tremendous display of strength ever but he was never quite the same afterwards, his heroic actions to save his family permanently weakening him. Afterwards he suffered more and more frequently from terrible back pain and increasing illness. By the time his malady was diagnosed it was too late to save him. He died at Livadia on the Crimea, surrounded by his devoted wife and children like the beloved patriarch he was, on October 20, 1894.

Self-Strengthening Movement

The Self-Strengthening Movement, also known as the Westernization or Western Affairs Movement (c. 1861–1895), was a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars.

The British and French burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860 as Taiping rebel armies marched north, forced the imperial court to acknowledge the crisis. Prince Gong was made regent, Grand Councilor, and head of the newly formed Zongli Yamen (a de facto foreign affairs ministry). Local Han Chinese officials such as Zeng Guofan established private westernized militias in prosecuting the war against the rebels. Zeng and his armies eventually defeated the rebels and prosecuted efforts to import Western military technology and to translate Western scientific knowledge. They established successful arsenals, schools, and munitions factories.

In the 1870s and 1880s, their successors used their positions as provincial officials to build shipping, telegraph lines, and railways. China made substantial progress toward modernizing its heavy industry and military, but the majority of the ruling elite still subscribed to a conservative Confucian worldview, and the "self-strengtheners" were by and large uninterested in social reform beyond the scope of economic and military modernization. The Self-Strengthening Movement succeeded in securing the revival of the dynasty from the brink of eradication, sustaining it for another half-century. The considerable successes of the movement came to an abrupt end with China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. Another major modernization effort known as the late Qing reforms started in 1901 following the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform and the invasions of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Modern Reactionary Modernism

Herf believes that Reactionary Modernism can be seen in the current governments of Iran under the Ayatollahs and Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman. Extremist Islamist groups such as Al Qaeda also display elements of Reactionary Modernism.

Beliefs

The end goal of Reactionary modernists is to use modern technological advancements and historical hindsight to create a traditional social structure and society, including the restoration of old societal institutions, like aristocracy and clergy, within the modern societal landscape. This may also be referred to as Technological Romanticism, the restoration of Romanticist ideals of society, including but not limited to mysticism and ancient national identity. The latter especially was influential in the development of Volkism and Nazism, especially considering the Romanticist influences of the Conservative Revolution.

Romanticism does not need to exactly apply, especially if the foundation of thought is that of an already established religion such as Catholicism, Islam and the like, as the old movement clashed with established religions on matters of mysticism especially.

A core idea of Reactionary Modernism is aesthetics, which combines modern mediums with a traditional subject. An example of this is Nazi propaganda for its time and those fuckin little dark age edits. Vaporwave and retro are also in a way tied to the general aesthetic. Neo-Folk music is also an example of such an aesthetic.

In many cases the support for technological advancement is a pragmatic decision, especially in regard to external hostility: The Iran regime has dedicated many resources to the development of new military technologies and nuclear energy (and weapons), to fight against foreign hostility from say, liberal progressive nations that may threaten the core principles of society.

While the Nrx movement appears similar on a superficial level, Reactionary Modernism covers a much broader scope of ideas and concepts and may have many different implementations and interpretations. It has no real unified theory and only exists in practice due to some reactionary regimes.

Variants

Pragmatic Reactionaryism

Pragmatic Reactionaryism appears in practice when a reactionary or very conservative government or country uses any resources and means avalilabe to ensure it's long-term surivival and prosperity as well as the continuation of it's ideals through maintaining an economic, technological, military and industrial base to finance the state and maintain the state aparatus and economy and sufficient standards as a way of legitimising the extremely socially conservative government at the head. In essence, creating a functional socially reactionary society with a modernised economy based upon mainly export and production, using such as leverage to prevent external cultural influence from abroad. In most cases these economies follow some form of state oriented capitalism or corporatism.

Some modern regimes that fall into this definition are Iran with it's extensive nuclear energy investments and military industrial complex, India under the BJP with it's massive IT sector, Japan, especially during it's Tiger period of development, modern Russia in some aspects as while it's deposits of natural gas are a significant economic source, it is the STEM sectors that have picked up the slack in the current climate Russia has found itself in. Historically, Russia during the reign of Alexander III and later Nicholas II, facing stagnation which reared it's head during the Crimean war and the ineffective reforms of Alexander II, underwent rapid industrialisation, modernisation and economic growth, culminating in the creation of the Trans-Sibirian railway, one of the largest industrial projects to this day.

In it's most boiled-down form, Pragmatic Reactionaryism simply striving for a modernised economy with a fundamentally traditionalist or reactionary regime at the head in order to keep it competitive in the world.

Technoromanticism

Technoromanticism refers to the belief in the transformative power of advanced technologies, which is associated with the revival of the artistic and philosophical movement known as Romanticism. This term was first used in 1999 in the book "Technoromanticism," which highlighted the presence of romantic ideals in discussions about digital technology at the time.

Technoromanticism suggests that technology has the ability to solve humanity's problems and create techno-utopias. It is an idealistic perspective that also looks to the past, seeing advanced technologies as an opportunity to bring back traditional values, similar to William Morris' fascination with medieval guilds. Technoromanticism embraces narratives of wholeness, in opposition to the supposedly reductionist tendencies of rationalism. The idea of using digital networks to restore a sense of organic unity to human society and the world can be considered technoromantic, as can the belief in the religious redemptive qualities of digital technology.

Criticism

The term Reactionary Modernism was criticized by Thomas Rohkrämer who was quoted as saying "It is simply not strange, or 'paradoxical' to reject the Enlightenment & embrace technology at the same time', but a common practice in nineteenth- & twentieth-century Germany as well as in many other countries. Instrumental reason and technology are available for an endless number of different purposes, many of which are not humane, or enlightened"

Roger Griffin also criticized the term by arguing that " Fascism as an ideology and movement can be seen as proposing a radical alternative to Liberal & Socialist visions of what form modernity ideally should take. It represents an uncompromising rejection both of thorough-going liberalism and extreme 'modernism', whose logical culmination it sees as relativism, anomie, subjectivism, and the loss of definitive meaning and 'eternal' values. It is an attempt to re-anchor modern human beings within that highly modern phenomenon, the Totalitarian state through consciously manipulated historical, national & racist myth".

Personality and Behaviour

• He enjoys cooperating with Nazi Transhumanism for cultural and technological reasons
• He is passionate about STEM and rejecting postmodern art
• Enjoys many modern aesthetics
• Supporter of the Military Industrial Complex
• Likes to complain about degeneracy.
• Comes off extremely unhinged when interacting with those he hates
• Avid player of Paradox Interactive games like Crusader Kings
• Shitposter
• Often gets nostalgic about eras he didn't actually live in
• Erratic speech and use of internet jargon
• May be depicted as Terry A. Davis

How to Draw

Flag of Reactionary Modernism

1. Draw a ball,
2. Fill it with dark grey
3. Inside the ball draw a grey gear
4. Inside the gear draw a gold sword
5. Draw the eyes, and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Dark Grey	#2D2D2D	45, 45, 45
	Grey	#7F7F7F	127, 127, 127
	Gold	#FFC90E	255, 201, 14

Relationships

Shitposters and Steam friends

• Conservative Transhumanism - Technological advancement ought to preserve and sustain a traditional society.
• Industrialism - EXPAND PRODUCTION!
• Corporatism and State Capitalism - The most efficient economic systems, we ball!
• Crusadism - I bet cyborg crusaders armed with plasma cannons and lightsabers can take back the holy land from lower-tech heathens!
• Byzantine Model - And I also bet that railguns and motorized cataphracts can retake the eternal city! Also, for your time you championed Roman Tradition and advanced technology
• Fascism - For an alternate modernity!
• Francoism - You are one of the best examples of what I believe in, especially with Opus Dei!
• Catholic Theocracy - Your contributions to scientific research and the modern world are incredible and a religious revival is necessary! I am the key to what you want! Yes, I may or may not be addicted to Crusader Kings.
• Khomeinism - Nuclear power? Developing your own Military-Industrial complex and high-tech drones? Reactionary Islamic Republic? GEM!
• Cameralism - Ensuring Absolutism and hegemony through technological advancement and "Science of the State" is everything I love at once!
• Neoreactionaryism - You have some very good ideas, like the Cathedral, Types of Society, however Materialism leaves a lot to be desired. Still you're great!
• Neocameralism - Interesting management of state and economy...
• Monarcho-Capitalism - I love Stolypin and the Thai Monarchy.
• Counter-Enlightenment - All my homies hate the enlightenment! Are you the one who recorded those CK2 death sounds?
• Reactionaryism - I have no idea why everyone assumes you're against technology. What do you mean "go outside"? I do go outside! What do you mean I have to talk to people?!
• Conservative Technocracy - Now THIS is what I love!
• Hindutva - Congratulations on your Chandrayaan-3 landing.
• Eco-Conservatism - Humboldt was a pro-science romanticist, just like me. Besides, climate change can be a significant and unpredictable danger to society, it is better if we adopt nuclear power en masse and develop a cleaner industry.
• Stratocracy - We need to use a modernized army to defend our traditional realm from godless liberalism and degeneracy!
• Classical Conservatism - Technology has granted us the ability to re-live the good old days! *boots up Victoria II*
• Kraterocracy - Warhammer 40K is aestherically very close to my beliefs

Data analysis inconclusive

• Nazism - I influenced you and many of your scientific advancements shaped the modern world but I can not defend you in good faith. But I really like Arno and Speer, those two hard-carried your aesthetics.
• Showa Statism - Similar to above, unit 731 is in some ways worse than Mengele's work.
• Nazi Transhumanism - You're taking things in the wrong direction.
• Reactionary Socialism - I like your critique of the Enlightenment but for the love of god, technology isn't THAT bad.
• Fourth Theory - Meta-modernism is great as is the anti-liberalism but I don't understand the explicit hate for transhumanism, if nothing else we must advance technology to maintain an advantage over our enemies.
• Reactionary Liberalism - Would be based if it weren't for your awful economics. Japan is good just FIX YOUR DAMN ECONOMY AND ULTRA-CONSUMERISM!
• Neoconservatism - I like the Military Industrial Complex, I like the aesthetic, in theory, you're perfect, but no you're barely conservative. At least we got Gilley.
• Progressive Conservatism - When will you understand that there is no such thing as social progress?
• Archeofuturism - Guillaume Faye was fine, but all this is a bit deranged, no?
• Alt-Right - Terminally online (even more than me) degenerate supporters. Stop jerking off to anime and do your STEM homework.
• Alt-Lite - Same as above, but even more moderate.
• Manosphere - Your one-sided views on relationships and toxicity are disgusting, though I admit some of your factions and ideas are good.
• Scientocracy - STEM is the way, but your actual supporters are midwit living incarnations of soy. Hail Fauci!
• Esoteric Fascism - Shizafascist lunatic, MEDS, NOW! No not those me- THAT'S MY ADRENOCHROME
• Futurism - We build upon the past, abandoning it is quite literally undermining our foundations. That and there's no such thing as societal progress, only barbarism which... you agree with? I do like your art however, it is very aesthetically pleasing.
• Enlightened Absolutism - I want to like you, I really do, modernisation of the state apparatus and economy under absolutism is great but why must you also chase social "progress"? Many of you were good but many of you were terrible in that regard.
• Post-Industrialism - I understand you support new technology but we have to keep our factories, including the heavy industry, within our direct control because without it we're running on imaginary numbers.

Drone-Strike targets and Soyjak folder entries

• Enlightenment Thought - Do the world a favor and die in a ditch, all you have ever said and claim to have done are lies spouted by hordes of midwits that keep your ideals in power by quantity alone. You slandered every time period before you and take the achievements of the past for your own. Even the word "enlightenment" itself is the biggest show of ego I can think off the top of my head and would go so far as to call you the biggest lie in history.
• Kakistocracy - The reason people still deny technology has helped society.
• Liberalism - You should be thrown in a meat grinder
• Neoliberalism - Your "evidence-based policy" is unsustainable bullshit, your economies are built on wishful thinking and unending growth! Do you not see the catastrophe you're making, this house of cards will bury not just you, but all of the enlightenment! Not even Reagan's social policy can make you redeemable!
• Soulism - No, you're not living in a high-tech astral plane or shifting your mind to an alternate universe. You are just vomiting and hallucinating.
• Revolutionary Progressivism - You look like this, and say this.
• Posadism - Ever read High Crusade? but we both like nuclear power
• Vperedism - Oh fuck off, there's more of you!?
• Secular Satanism - Well, I can't show you what hell looks like, but I can simulate a mild aproximate of it. Put on this VR set while I inject capsaicin into your artery.
• Neoluddism - Words cannot describe how much contempt I hold for you, Anti-Society, atheistic, luddite dog! Rest in piss!
• Anarcho-Primitivism - You should get drone-striked.
• Technoliberalism - I can smell the overpowering stench of soy from the screen. At best you're an idealist who doesn't realize technology alone can't save mankind, at worst you look like this.
• Progressivism - I won't repeat what I already said, enjoy your life and see where it gets you.
• Pol Potism - 14 YEAR LIFE EXPECTANCY?!
• Fully Automated Gay Space Communism - You deserve nothing short of the full force of a space crusade. Stop the hedonist bastards from reconsolidating in space At all costs!
• Anarcho-Nihilism - "Life has no meaning and we're all just monkeys on a ball of dust but DON'T YOU DARE BE HECKIN OPRESSIVE" Please hang yourself already and spare us your whining.
• State Liberalism - Everything I said about Neoliberalism but tenfold. Luckily this means you're ten-times unsustainable as well, have fun dealing with dysgenics, a disloyal population and an unwilling army, economic and environmental collapse, STD epidemics, I could go on. What I fear more than you is the absolute deluge that comes after you get hanged from a lamp-post.
• Fordism - Technology and Industry are anything but incompatible with God and tradition! What I hate about you is that you're like them , meaning completely socially screwed but also, unfortunately, somewhat sustainable, and arguably the end state of the current powers that be.
• Neo-Enlightenment - Ultra-enlightened philosophically, Liberal culturally, neoliberal economically... Oh god.

Further Information

Literature

• Reactionary Modernism: Technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich

Wikipedia

• Reactionary Modernism

Videos

• Germany 2.4: Technology as German in the Interwar Period

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