re: #163 ckkatz
What you describe strikes me as the Reactionary Atavists vs. the Institutionalists.
The latter group, by their characterological essence, are “conservative”.
The former group, who are strong believers in magick, think of words like “conservative” as incantations as well as labels. So they will attach that word to anything believe, no matter how radical (and not conservative in the traditional sense of that word) it actually is.