Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira's technical term, defined in the essay Revolução e Contra-Revolução (first published in Catolicismo no. 100, April 1959), which the TFP movement treats as its foundational text. In the essay's own definitions, 'the Revolution' is a centuries-long process destroying Christian civilization through three great revolutions — the 'Pseudo-Reformation', the French Revolution and Communism — driven by pride and sensuality; the Counter-Revolution is literally 're-action', the struggle to crush that process: 'if the Revolution is disorder, the Counter-Revolution is the restoration of order', order meaning 'the peace of Christ in the reign of Christ — that is, Christian civilization, austere and hierarchical, fundamentally sacral, anti-egalitarian and anti-liberal'. An attributed definition: the glossary reports the author's usage; assessments of the program stay in the tfp project.[1] [2]

tfpRelated: Integrismo (integrism)

Sources

  1. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 'Revolução e Contra-Revolução' (Catolicismo n. 100, April 1959)pliniocorreadeoliveira.info — movement-affiliated archive of the author's works · primary · archived 2026-10-24
  2. Tradition, Family, PropertyWikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia · archived 2026-06-30