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January 16, 2008

Progressivism: Compare and Contrast

by AltHippo @ 5:47 pm. Filed under hacks, Liberal Fascism

I thought it would be interesting to look at two definitions for the word progressivism.

First, wikipedia:

Progressivism historically advocates the advancement of workers’ rights and social justice. The progressives were early proponents of anti-trust laws and the regulation of large corporations and monopolies, as well as government-funded environmentalism and the creation of National Parks and Wildlife Refuges.

Second, Lord Pantload:

The early progressives saw the world as a contest between ethnocultural groups and Yglesias does too. But we don’t really have to prove any arcane point of ideological resemblance in order to rebut his charge of ahistorical reductionism. My book argues that national socialism in this country, which used to be called progressivism, changed its name to liberalism after World War II. Hillary Clinton herself – the virtual embodiment (according to her supporters) of modern liberalism — rejects the liberal label and proudly proclaims her spiritual kinship with the Progressives. Does she understand what it means to link herself to a nationalistic, socialistic, eugenicist project? Do any of today’s self-proclaimed progressives?

I think someone’s been hitting the Cheetos past their bed time.

More later. I’m off to the Drinking Eugenically happy hour.

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