Counterfactual history writing is largely a reactionary genre

Evidence

Counterfactuals are largely the preserve of the reactionary right, and Peace refuses the temptation to change the facts. He writes his retro-speculative fiction in the spaces between the recorded facts, extrapolating, inferring, guessing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 215

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”