Tuesday, January 27, 2015
A Reactionary
Francis Stuart Campbell (pseudonym of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn), "Credo of a Reactionary," The American Mercury, Vol. LVII, No. 235 (July 1943) 86-92 (at 86):
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I do not hesitate to announce that I am a reactionary. I take a deep pride in the fact. I see no more virtue in looking forward longingly to an unknown future than in looking backward nostalgically to known and proven values.
The term "reactionary" as I use it does not stand for a definite and immutable set of ideas. It stands for an attitude of mind. As a reactionary I resent and oppose the spirit and the trends of the epoch I am forced to live in, and seek to restore the spirit which had its finest embodiment in by-gone periods.
