Radical/Reactionary?

Date: 5th Aug '01

Name: Mr Hakenkreuz

Country: Not so great Britain

Forgive me, I am confused. I keep hearing two buzzwords on this guestbook, they are "radical" and "reactionary". Let me see, have I got this right;
'Reactionary' means reacting against the present orthodoxy. Reacting against the present set of political ideas (which is Liberalism).Reactionary wants fundamental change from what currently exists.

'Radical' means taking further the already existing set of political ideas (ie Liberalism).'Radicalism' means more of the same of what you've already got, just a bigger dose of it.

My questions then are:
(1) Why does the left like to think of itself as a vehicle of change, when all it wants is more of what already exists?
(2) Why does the left think that the answer to Britain's problems are more of the same poison that is destroying us in the first place?
(3) Why does the left like to think of itself as rebelious, when they are only saying the same thing as the establishment?

Thanks for listening,
A welling Wave to you all,
Mr H

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