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All the so-called powerful reactionaries are paper tigers, for theyare cut off from their people.Was not Hitler a paper tiger, and was he not overthrown? US imperialism has not yet been overthrown, and it has atomic bombsbut I believe that it too will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.
— 1957 Speech to Communist International Congress, Moscow, Nov.
It's a country evenlydivided between conservatives and reactionaries.
— 1984 Of the US. In the Observer,16 Sep.
"Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men."
paulo freire— Chapter 2 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
christopher hitchens— "Politically Correct" (1991)
The Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns.
— Collected Works, Vol. 31, pp. 213–63[ ].
"You are dictatorial." My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
— The People's Democratic Dictatorship, speech (30 June 1949) commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party
When Michael Moore makes a movie these days, all hell seems to break loose. It gets to a point where whatever message he's trying to communicate is drowned out by all the media attention, knee-jerk reactionaries, and general resentment.
Michael Moore— Brian Orndorf (June 2007)
The best Achievers are scarcely known by the Bums; The next best are compensated and given beepers; The next are real reactionaries; The next, human paraquat : They have no faith in the Bums, So the Bums reveal them for the phonies they are. When the best achievers achieve their purpose , The bums leave them alone, mister.
— Ch. 17 : Achievers (The Dude De Ching (2010))
Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes... To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.
— Mengistu Haile Mariam, February 5 (1977), as quoted in Dawit Wolde Giorgis (1989) Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, p. 31
