neoreaction

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English

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Etymology

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From neo- +‎ reaction.

Noun

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neoreaction (plural neoreactions)

  1. A reaction against modern, typically liberal values.
    • 2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore.

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