Comments on: Reactionary Philosophy https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/reactionary-philosophy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/reactionary-philosophy/comment-page-1/#comment-789821 Isegoria Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:25:47 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31200#comment-789821 It wouldn’t be a very conservative philosophy if it purported to explain the entire zigzag of Western history with one simple formula.

]]> By: Nick Land https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/reactionary-philosophy/comment-page-1/#comment-789002 Nick Land Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:50:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31200#comment-789002 L. C. Rees, OK, but:

Period 6 (c. AD 1688 – 1933): Asiatic-style despotism shifts back to PIE-style republican oligarchy.

Period 7 (c. AD 1933 – present): PIE-style republican oligarchy shifts back to Asiatic-style despotism.

]]> By: Oni https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/reactionary-philosophy/comment-page-1/#comment-788772 Oni Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:30:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31200#comment-788772 @ L. C. Rees.

wat.

]]> By: L. C. Rees https://www.isegoria.net/2013/03/reactionary-philosophy/comment-page-1/#comment-786742 L. C. Rees Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:50:43 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31200#comment-786742 The thesis falls short. It does not comprehend the entire zigzag of Western history:

Period 1 (c. 2000 BC-c. 1200 BC): shift from Proto-Indo Europeans (PIE) republican oligarchy on Ukrainian steppes to Near Eastern Asiatic-style despotism (e.g. Hittites, Mycenaean Greeks)

Period 2 (c. 1200 BC – c. 146 BC): Asiatic-style despotism shifts back to PIE republican oligarchy.

Period 3 (c. 146 BC – c. AD 632): PIE-style republican oligarchy shifts back to Asiatic-style despotism.

Period 4 (c. AD 632 – c. AD 1314): Asiatic-style despotism shifts back to PIE-style republican oligarchy.

Period 5 (c. AD 1314 – c. AD 1830): PIE-style republican oligarchy shifts back to Asiatic-style despotism.

Period 6 (c. AD 1830 – present): Asiatic-style despotism shifts back to PIE-style republican oligarchy.

Where “reactionaries” see a drift from supposed antediluvian monarchy to isonomia as something to “react” against, it is more plausible to see isonomists as the true reactionaries. They seek to preserve the PIE inheritance from innovators, however “reactionary”, from reinfecting it with the alien Asiatic tradition of proskynesis.

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