A term used by college socialists and neo-Marxists to describe anyone with political views to the right of Mao. The word has its roots in the Communist model of history, where all of human history is supposedly one long class struggle between the working class and the bourgeois.

Someone who "reacts" to change. Specifically reacts to social and cultural progress. A rejection of structure based on objective reality.

This is seen often in the far-left and is most commonly attributed to elements of it that reject social progress (ironically calling their rejection of progress as progress) and prefer a return to no formal social structure or culture, similar to primitivism. Ironically, as typical in leftist circles, the left tries to take such words and weaponize them against their enemies by giving them the opposite meaning. Similar to "fair-share" to the leftist meaning 0% taxes for some citizens and 80% taxes for the ebil nazi working class.

one who supports Reaction in opposition to the general progressive Western zeitgeist, often accompanied by a sense that the expansion of democratic politcs has made life in general much worse either in absolute terms, or measured by what should have been achievable with modern science, reason, and technology; usually believes race is a real genetic construct and therefore not surprised at disparate average outcomes across large population groups; often believes human evolution has in part or in toto shaped human nature, which therefore cannot easily, or at all, be changed very much by social engineering and/or conditioning; usually believes heirarchy is imprinted upon mankind by nature and/or God, and that heirarchy is not only not necessarily evil, but desirable and even inevitable and ought not be torn down for any but the most grave reasons; tends to support tradition either as revealed by his religion and/or as successful adaptive memetic developments which usually solve deep and complex problems in human societies; anti-revolutionary; anti-socialist; anti-communist; anti-whig; anti-democratic; anti-globalist; skeptical; (once a term of derision, most reactionaries of late do happily so self-identify)

Marx's perjoravtive of those on the right/non-communists.

A person too stupid to think through the consequences of actions.

Someone who formed his opinion based on a recent event while disregarding the past knowledge or information.

Having old political and social views. Being ultraconservative. Reactionaries like to reminisce about the good old days when slavery, sexism, racism and cruel/unusal punishment were prominent.

extreme conservatism, especially in politics. wanting to restore to past conditions that can no longer compete with modern changes.

Former radical hippies turning into post reactionary hippies

Reactionary or Reactionaries are normally on the right political spectrum normally in the form of Pro-Monarchist, Less moderate conservatives and or anti-socialist and anti-communist. Though the left has their own reactionaries in the form of anarchist or less moderate socialist or democratic socialist. Though this is not always the case and most of the time they are just radical forms of an already existing ideology. Radical is being used as more instant unlike moderates who like change over time and radicals do not always equals bad or negative ideologies. They’re also reactionary centrist called Radical Centerist or Radical Liberals which they are called in the media.