I do not agree with everything that I post. This is one of those things.
With most any socio-political movement that has any legs to it, I can manage to empathize with some of its motivations if I make the effort. A perfectly benevolent dictatorship might represent an improvement to the current state of things for some. However, I get the impression that neoreactionaries are those that want the fixed game of a libertarian society, but reject the unplanned nature of it and the possibility that their perfect world would not reign supreme.
- If a libertarian society would leave many out in the cold, libertarians seem not to care.
It's not too difficult to see how a Reactionary society would leave some people out in the cold. Maybe not literally outside in the cold, but otherwise a victim smothered by this patriarchal social order.
I don't think any political movement that cites Julius Evola is ever going to have any kind of legs to it.
I thought reactionary was a pejorative for the unthinking right. I they trying to "reclaim" the term or is this tongue in cheek.
In a piece that I just can't finish, Mencius Moldbug makes the case that it is a proper description for the true anti-progressive. I linked the 3rd part, where he addresses that it is a philosophy that exists in reaction to the 'W-force', or philosophies built upon it. There seems to be plenty of thought here, but I can't make heads or tails of the way the Reactionary sees things ought to be. One of the commenters makes the point that Capitalism is a big driver of the W-force. Paul Graham is linked in his blog roll. It is confusing to me.
Even though Mikey sez this is not fascism and I would not want to be an idiot for saying that it is. It does remind me a bit of a All-man No-homo Make-out club. you know for straight guys that want to practice kissing and stuff without ladies around. They should just come clean and call it traditionalism they already quote Evola.
the Original Post seemed to position it as something to do after you figure out libertarianism is stupid. Which makes sense most "libertarians" are not as pro-choice, anti-war or pro-gay as the label suggests they would be I think it a bunch of special snowflakes that need special snowflake politics.
They look like what transhumanists would look like if they were facing the other way; instead of trying to make science fiction come true by wishing really hard and spewing logorrhea, they seem to be trying to make fantasies about the past come true by wishing really hard and spewing logorrhea. They might as well be Traditionalists, but they're less honest about it. The Traditionalists, even Evola himself, don't hide that they're writing mythology. Most of them take Evola's advice and do art rather than politics.