The Origins of the Neo-Reactionaries?

[ComradeAllende]

Lately (by which I mean post-financial crisis), there's been a lot of talk about these so-called "neo-reactionaries" and their intellectual connections with conservatism, feudalism, and various other reactionary movements. I haven't really browsed their literature (which appears to be a mix of Hayek, Rand, and maybe Nietzsche), but from what I can tell, they argue for the establishment of an authoritarian regime that would enforce harshly conservative social roles and reject certain bourgeois liberal values like democracy and egalitarianism. I was wondering about the origins and context surrounding this movement and whether or not this is a mutated spawn of libertarianism or something much different.

[StromboliFucker666]

They (for the most part) follow the "radical" traditionalist branch of fascism.

It's not really related to libertarianism in many ways although they probably do agree on certain issues.

[John Nada]

A fascist ideology originating from the petty-bourgeoisie in the IT sector. An outgrowth of internet "libertarians'" reactionary contempt for modern bourgeois democratic rights that conflict with the "free market" and individual "negative rights", as well as Malthusianism and social Darwinism that already permeate right-"libertarianism". Taken one step further, bourgeois liberal democracy itself is called into question. It's right-"libertarianism" followed to its logical conclusion.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Lately (by which I mean post-financial crisis), there's been a lot of talk about these so-called "neo-reactionaries" and their intellectual connections with conservatism, feudalism, and various other reactionary movements.

I don't think so. Quite literally, I wouldn't even have noticed these people if not for various leftists panicking on the Internet. And I think that I'm reasonably up-to-date with political news. Of course, if I actively sought such material out, I would find it, but that's the use?

As for its origin, it's another Internet-only ideology founded by people who think ideology is a great big pick-and-mix bag and that you can combine positions as you wish, see also "NEP and corporatism are kind of both cool" NBP, although to be fair, those people at least have an actual street presence. Such Internet "ideologies" are a dime a dozen, see anarcho-capitalism for example, the Venus Project, polyarchy, whatever the kids reading Orson Scott Card and desperately trying to deny their right-wing views are into these days, RevLeft's own Internet-only ideologies and so on.

It doesn't really have a context because it doesn't have a grounding in real politics.

[Nial Fossjet]

I made a thread about this previously:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/unabashed-internet-reactionaries-t166409/index.html?p=2560018#post2560018

Basically, this article gives a good overview of the movement. Note that there's also other modern day hard-right scenes on the internet, such as the "alt-right":
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

As a sidebar, it's really stupid to overuse the term "fascist." These are hard-right reactionaries with a lot of ideas that overlap with fascism, perhaps, but their ideologies are either new or attempting to outdo fascism. They sometimes criticize fascism for placing too much faith in mass movements and the concept of "the people", instead to cut to the chase and crave for a single authoritarian to rule them, instead.