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Malkinius -> RE: Operation Eagle Claw 2010 (8/18/2010 12:51:39 AM)
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Greetings Brain....
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ORIGINAL: Brain
Usage and history
The French Revolution gave the English language two politically descriptive words denoting anti-progressive politics: reactionary and conservative. Reactionary derives from the French word réactionnaire (an early nineteenth-century coinage), and conservative from conservateur, identifying monarchist parliamentarians opposed to the revolution.[2] In this French usage, reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs." The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first English-language usage was by John Stuart Mill, in 1840: "The philosophers of the reactionary school—of the school to which Coleridge belongs".[3]
If I read your post correctly then liberals trying to change a current conservative status-quo and return to a previous liberal status-quo would properly be called reactionaries? Also, if they opposed any sort of revolution, even a non-liberal one, they are then conservatives?
Be well....
Malkinius
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