Editing Reactionary (section)

=== 21st century ===
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"Accessing reactional and perverse websites strictly prohibited" 
- Warning against visiting reactionary websites in a [[Vietnam]]ese [[internet café]]]]
[[Japan]]'s right-wing [[Japanese nationalism|nationalist]] and [[Right-wing populism#Japan|populist]] movements and related organizations, which emerged rapidly from the late 20th century, are considered "reactionary" because they revised the post-war [[Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution|peace constitution]] and have an advocating attitude toward the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Yul |editor1-last=Sohn |editor2-first=T. J. |editor2-last=Pempel |title=Japan and Asia's Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4F5qDwAAQBAJ&q=Reactionary+Nippon+Kaigi&pg=PA148 |quote=the reactionary group Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference)—has been waging war over its shared past with China and South Korea on battlegrounds ranging from Yasukuni Shrine to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). |date=2018 |page=148 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |isbn=9789811302565 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

"Neo-reactionary" is a term that is sometimes a self-description of an informal group of online political theorists who have been active since the 2000s.<ref name="TechCrunch: Geeks for Monarchy">{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/ |website=TechCrunch |title=Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries |date=22 November 2013 |first=Klint |last=Finley |access-date=14 December 2023}}</ref> The phrase "neo-reactionary" was coined by "Mencius Moldbug" (the pseudonym of [[Curtis Yarvin]], a computer programmer) in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/ol3-jacobite-history-of-world.html |title=Unqualified Reservations: OL3: the Jacobite history of the world |website=unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk |access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/olx-simple-sovereign-bankruptcy.html |title=Unqualified Reservations: OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure |website=unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk |access-date=14 February 2015}} ([[George Orwell]] used it in a different context in 1943 – {{cite web |url=http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19431224.html |title=As I Please |work=Tribune |date=24 December 1943 |first=George |last=Orwell |author-link=George Orwell}})</ref> [[Arnold Kling]] used it in 2010 to describe "Moldbug", and the subculture quickly adopted it.<ref name="TechCrunch: Geeks for Monarchy" /> Proponents of the "Neo-reactionary" movement (also called the "[[Dark Enlightenment]]" movement) include philosopher [[Nick Land]], among others.<ref>{{cite web |first=Matthew |last=Walther |url=https://spectator.org/blog/57516/dark-enlightenment-silly-not-scary |title=The Dark Enlightenment Is Silly Not Scary |website=[[The American Spectator]] |date=January 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126235319/https://spectator.org/blog/57516/dark-enlightenment-silly-not-scary |access-date=2 October 2014 |archive-date=2014-01-26}}</ref>