The Neo-Reactionaries (NRx) : a Western panic

The neo-reactionary movement (NRx), also known as the ‘Dark Enlightenment’, is a nebulous, anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian ideological current that emerged in the English-speaking blogosphere in the late 2000s. It offers a radical critique of liberal democracy and the ideals of the Enlightenment and attracts interest because, like Marxism in its day—though with infinitely less potential—it provides a framework for interpreting the ongoing technobiotic and anthropological revolution and the accompanying reconfiguration of power. The appeal of neo-reaction rests primarily on the credibility by association it has generated amongst the rich and famous: politicians or tech billionaires; its supposed influence stems less from its own metapolitical effectiveness than from the utility that its ultra-radical views and inconsistencies represent for the opponents of the new tech lords at a time when the latter are gaining power within the Western state apparatus.