A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 13 “Social and Industrial Justice” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

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"This report is an investigation by the Reactionary International and the Transnational Institute, and is accompanied by a series of essays on fascism as part of the State of Power report.

The New Authoritarian Wave

​Far right and authoritarian forces have capitalised on global economic insecurity and political alienation to win elections. This map traces their electoral success, showing where far-right parties lead governments, shape ruling coalitions or are positioned to take power. It also tracks the main hubs and actors of transnational far right organising, represented here by the locations of transnational conferences and highlighting the key foundations and political networks that circulate funding, ideas and strategy. This has helped transform national movements into a coordinated global current."

https://reactionary.international/investigations/mapping-fascism/en/#0-The%20New%20Authoritarian%20Wave

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Article in The New Yorker on how Nick Land has ‘has reemerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.’ And yet is also very much yesterday’s man. “They sounded like old fogeys,” said podcaster Justin Murphy, host of a 2020 LA conversation between Land and Curtis Yarvin, another influential neo-reactionary - an event that was also attended by Peter Theil. “We’ll remember this night as proof that the Dark Enlightenment is over.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher

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The truth is in the 21st century there's only two major ideologies that exist. That being liberalism and reactionary illiberalism. The battle between the eternal present and the revolt against modernity. With Russia, the PRC and the neoreactionary faction of the Republican party within the US representing reactionary illiberalism. While the European Union and the Democratic party of the US representing liberalism.

That both online tankies and fascists are both slices of reactionary illiberalism. Since they are both funded by Russia and repeat the same Russian propaganda. The problem with this is that liberalism cannot be the only opposition to reactionary illiberalism. Because liberalism is not purely progressive and because of that it's cracks and flaws make it easy for reactionary illiberals to point to and turn people away from it.

What is needed to defeat the rising tide of reactionary illiberalism is a revolutionary progressivism. Something that is purely progressive. The problem with this is that currently there is no ideology that's purely progressive. The closest thing there is anarchism. Since anarchism's opposition to hierarchy makes it immune to social and systematic conservatism.

But it's one blind spot is on forms of oppression outside of hierarchy such as natural constraints. Which is where you get conservative forms of anarchism like primitivism. I think what we need is an ideology that goes beyond just opposing hierarchy but all constraints including natural ones. We need a radical left transhumanism that opposes all constraints including natural ones. To fight for the freedom of the individual to do and be anything. Including changing and modifying their form to their true selves.

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Now on Verdant Square Radio:

https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/116013218482771661

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Well, this is tense.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/chile-faces-presidential-runoff-between-leftist-jara-and-far-rights-kast

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Anyone remember how during the #Brexit referendum, ‘remain' was labeled #ProjectFear by it's opponents?

And now most of them are actually fear-mongering about immigration.

Remember how the right continuously called the left SJWs and Snowflakes?

And now the right consistently claim to be victims of a fantasied culture war in continuous effort to justify their oppression.

Their outrage farming was projection all along.

#UKPol #USPol #Reactionary

»When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist.

When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a trade unionist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet; I wasn't a social democrat.

When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet; I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.«

Martin Niemöller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came)

I’d like to add some modern lines:

When again the #reactionary #bourgeois #registered #queer and #mentallychallenged humans, I kept quiet, I was not (yet) affected nor framed as such.

When again the reactionary bourgeois locked up climate #activists, arabs, #muslims, latinos, human rights activists, open #anticapitalists, destroyed any social transfer systems, welcomed the fascists as friends, and lured us into »just« wars, I kept quiet.

When again #autocracy and #fascism had become normal and usual I learned that all the above had been my brothers, sisters, and every gender in between and apart.