What are the opposite words for counter-revolutionary?

Counter-revolutionary refers to a person or a movement that opposes a revolution or seeks to undo its effects. Its antonyms are revolutionary and reformist. Revolutionary refers to a person or a movement that aims to bring about a radical change in the social, economic, or political systems. Reformist, on the other hand, refers to a person or a movement that seeks to improve or modify the existing systems gradually without overthrowing them. Other antonyms for counter-revolutionary are progressive, liberal, and radical, which connote a willingness to challenge established norms and traditions and push for change. In contrast, conservative, traditionalist, and reactionary are terms that indicate a resistance to change and a desire to preserve the status quo.

What are the antonyms for Counter-revolutionary?

• adj.

  • reactionary
  • liberal
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  • progressive
  ,
  • radical
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Famous quotes with Counter-revolutionary

• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

  Guy Debord
• It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

  Janos Kadar
• Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

  Guy Debord
• Outside the party, formless revolutionary frustration mingled with distinctly counter-revolutionary trends. Since the ruling group had singled out Trotsky as a target for attack he automatically attracted the spurious sympathy of many who had hitherto hated him. As he made his appearance in the streets of Moscow [in the spring of 1924], he was spontaneously applauded by crowds in which idealist communists rubbed shoulders with Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, and the new bourgeoisie of the NEP, by all those indeed who, for diverse reasons hoped for a change

  Isaac Deutscher

Synonyms:

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