neoreaction

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noun

A reaction against modern, typically liberal, values.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounneoreaction (uncountable)
  1. uncountablegovernmentA reaction against modern, typically liberal, values.
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    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.

    2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2020

Origin

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Chicago

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