Really, if we had the chance to switch it all around, I'd rather Marx/Engels had used some other word besides reactionary. Reactive is good for the common understanding of 'reactionary' though. I suppose their problem was that the reactionaries were reactive with a desire to return to status quo ante, hah. I wonder what the german word it is translated from... :thinkin-lenin:
I’m going to be a semantics Stalin here but ‘reactionary’ doesn’t mean ‘one who reacts’ but ‘one who wants a return to status quo ante’.
You're right. What word are we looking for here?
I wish I could wave a magic wand and make "reactionary" mean what it sounds like it means.
Probably just reactive is the word (opposite of proactive)
Really, if we had the chance to switch it all around, I'd rather Marx/Engels had used some other word besides reactionary. Reactive is good for the common understanding of 'reactionary' though. I suppose their problem was that the reactionaries were reactive with a desire to return to status quo ante, hah. I wonder what the german word it is translated from... :thinkin-lenin: