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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.


Janos Kadar


#anger #attack #burning #capital #class

Every once in a while, however, the subordinates of this world contest their fates. They protest their conditions, write letters and petitions, join movements, and make demands. Their goals may be minimal and discrete — better safety guards on factory machines, an end to marital rape—but in voicing them, they raise the specter of a more fundamental change in power. They cease to be servants or supplicants and become agents, speaking and acting on their own behalf. More than the reforms themselves, it is this assertion of agency by the subject class—the appearance of an insistent and independent voice of demand — that vexes their superiors. Guatemala’s Agrarian Reform of 1952 redistributed a million and a half acres of land to 100,000 peasant families. That was nothing, in the minds of the country’s ruling classes, compared to the riot of political talk the bill seemed to unleash. Progressive reformers, Guatemala’s arch-bishop complained, sent local peasants “gifted with facility with words” to the capital, where they were given opportunities “to speak in public.” That was the great evil of the Agrarian Reform.


Corey Robin


#reactionary-politics #change

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.


Alexander Mackenzie


#any #appreciate #canada #considerable #considerable number

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.


Camille Paglia


#career #certainly #classes #considered #discussion

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#reactionary #walking

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.


Theodore Roosevelt


#always #any #dead #issue #progressive

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.


Tom Metzger


#nowhere #reactionary #right

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!


Émile Zola


#reactionary #right #death

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.


Bruce Davison


#body needs #climate #especially #everybody #i

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.


Woodrow Wilson


#does #enough #far #go #goes






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