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True. But who encourages that? It is essentially Left creating the problem, and then offering the solution. That is why the Left is always winning. Again, if you look at the October Revolution - Tsarist government was reforming, and in fact the Left was pushing for the revolution because they...

Debatable. People who participate in revolutions often feel like they have nothing left to lose (and even that is not a hard rule), but you will find that the people who start revolutions tend to be just self-serving and power-hungry. French revolution? Started because of a spat between the...

How about think about themselves? Because usually, people who raise the revolution end up being the first on the chopping block after it has succeeded. And they fail to fulfill their goals anyway - all good things had been built gradually. But of course, people are dumb, panicky animals, hence...

You are missing the point. Yes, revolutions can be justified. Some weren't, some were, some simply snowballed. I am not denying that. My point is, regardless of all the best intentions, revolutions rarely achieve their goal of improving things, and in fact rarely manage to even achieve a...

Thing is, historically, revolutions against evils tended to produce even worse evils. American Revolution could be considered an exception, but then again it was less of a "revolution against evil" and more of a "what the heck is going on... oh, we are having a revolution?" thing.

If leaders decide that, neither constitution nor the elections will prevent them from doing it. It is, in fact, already happening all over the West. Government is inherently evil, no matter its form, but government with long tradition behind it tends to be less evil than something that was just...

That is how I became a reactionary: basically, I realized that conservatism is essentially a form of progressivism, because it has accepted all of the fundamental progressive tenets, and thus can never win against it.

That is actually one obstacle reactionaries and conservatives both face - progressives are a Borg collective who believe that you can force everybody into the same mold, and so can much more easily organize on a global level and across borders.

https://politicalreactionary.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/what-is-reactionarism-short-reactionary-faq/ 1. What is Reactionarism? Reactionarism is a set of ideas based on rejection of modernist, progressive philosophy. In the essence, reactionarism is anti-progressivism just as progressivism is...