Here is a Maoist website using the same definition, with a source from Mao using it in that way. Marx and Engels used it in the same way AFAIK, for example "reactionary socialism".
I'd appreciate sources for the alternate definition (not sarcastic, I mean this sincerely).
A political position that maintains a conservative response to change, including threats to social institutions and technological advances. Reaction is the reciprocal action to revolutionary movement. Reactionaries clamp down on the differences of the emerging productive forces in society, and attempt to remove those differences, silence them, or segregate them in order to keep the stability of the established order.
Examples of the political position of reactionaries can be seen throughout history: during the US Revolutionary War, the reactionaries were the ruling British aristocracy, who sought to maintain their feudal government over their American colonies, while the US revolutionaries sought to establish a government to represent the interests of capitalist values and practices. Hundreds of years later in Russia, the tables would turn and capitalists became reactionary while the Socialists are revolutionary.
Reactionaries are the opposite of revolutionaries. It doesn't just mean "reacts to things". The "reaction" here is the reaction against revolutionary movement, not an individual's reaction to new information or events.
He could also leave the Democratic party now. He still has a few years in his term, if he does a good job he could win again as an independent. Being the incumbent is obviously a huge advantage.
To clarify, I'm not expressing an opinion on the Shining Path here. I'm only describing how (I think) some people come to support them/Gonzalo. @puppygirlpets@hexbear.net
Led a revolution that at one point seemed like it would succeed near the time of the height of the "end of history". It didn't succeed, AFAIK in large part because of various issues with the Shining Path as a group (and Gonzalo as a leader), but I think that's why (at least partly) some people do like Gonzalo.
Can we have some more context for this? I don't know anything about this person and there's not a lot to go on in the linked post other than one or two bad takes (the matriarchy post IMO is just not theoretically or practically correct and the "beta cuck submissive babygirl princess" post is terrible even if it is ironic, which I'm not sure it is). Without knowing more about how this person used to post or how her posts changed over time/if these posts are just rare bad takes or all her posts are like this now, there's no way for me to know what's really going on.
This is a Trotskyist newspaper, so presumably any information about China can and will be used to write an article like this one.