Neoreaction / Dark Enlightenment
Rejects liberal democracy and egalitarian political legitimacy, often proposing concentrated sovereign authority modeled on monarchy or corporate control. Technology and market institutions can coexist with its defense of hierarchy.
Reference boundary: A contested umbrella for writers and online currents. No claim is made that all technology entrepreneurs or conservatives share it.
Foundational doctrines
- Anti-democracy
- Hierarchical sovereignty
- Critique of egalitarianism
Disagreement and variation
Removing electoral contest and public checks makes rulers difficult to challenge or replace. The current is internally varied; a person’s interest in technology, markets, or institutional reform does not establish support for its anti-democratic program.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.