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Historically, Progressives view themselves as "enlightened" social reformers apart from the ignorant and unwashed masses. [[Gay marriage]] for example is considered a progressive social reform.

Historically, Progressives view themselves as "enlightened" social reformers apart from the ignorant and unwashed masses. [[Gay marriage]] for example is considered a progressive social reform.

Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the [[racist]] belief that white Europe was demonstrating that societies could "progress" in civility from uncivilized conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of [[Empiricism|empirical knowledge]] as the foundation of society. Figures of the [[Enlightenment]] had the racist belief that "progress" had universal application to all societies and that these ideas would spread across the world from [[Caucasian|white]] Europe. By the early-20th century progressivism was tied to [[eugenics]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |year=2005 |last=Leonard |first=Thomas |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=207–224 |doi=10.1257/089533005775196642 |url=[https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf]] |accessdate= |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170820132528/https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf] |archivedate=20 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|date=2005|last=Freeden|first=Michael|authorlink=|title=Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought|pages=144–165|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=[[Princeton]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Lpu8wwvA1AC&pg=144|isbn=0691116776}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4026900|title=Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia|last=Roll-Hansen|first=Nils|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|volume=22|issue=3|pages=335–346|date=1989}}</ref>  

Progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the [[racist]] belief that white Europe was demonstrating that societies could "progress" in civility from uncivilized conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of [[Empiricism|empirical knowledge]] as the foundation of society. Figures of the [[Enlightenment]] had the racist belief that "progress" had universal application to all societies and that these ideas would spread across the world from [[Caucasian|white]] Europe. By the early-20th century progressivism was tied to [[eugenics]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |year=2005 |last=Leonard |first=Thomas |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=207–224 |doi=10.1257/089533005775196642 |url=[https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf]] |accessdate= |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170820132528/https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf] |archivedate=20 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|date=2005|last=Freeden|first=Michael|authorlink=|title=Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought|pages=144–165|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=[[Princeton]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Lpu8wwvA1AC&pg=144|isbn=0691116776}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=4026900|title=Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia|last=Roll-Hansen|first=Nils|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|volume=22|issue=3|pages=335–346|date=1989}}</ref>  

[[Karl Marx]] took the [[Hegelian]] conception of linear-progressive history and applied the idea of  [[class warfare]] to address [[income inequality]].

[[Karl Marx]] took the [[Hegelian]] conception of linear-progressive history and applied the idea of  [[class warfare]] to address [[income inequality]].