“That the reactionary protests against progressive society, judges
it, and condemns it, and yet is resigned to its current monopoly of
history, seems an eccentric position. The radical progressive, on the
one hand, does not comprehend how the reactionary condemns an action
that he acknowledges, and the liberal progressive, on the other, does
not understand how he acknowledges an action that he condemns. The first
demands that he relinquish his condemnation if he recognizes the
action’s necessity, and the second that he not confine himself to
abstention from an action that he admits is reprehensible. The former
warns him to surrender, the latter to take action. Both censure his
passive loyalty in defeat.”
-Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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