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==Progressivism in the Soviet Union==
==Progressivism in the Soviet Union==
While idea of Progressivism was never fully embraced in the United States, the idea of subordinating the rights of the individual to a bureaucratic class who supposedly have the interests of the collective whole at heart was found a home in the in the Soviet Union. Tearing down the institutions of capitalism and religion to make "progress" for humanity became a core tent.
===Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Progressive Doctrine===
===Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Progressive Doctrine===
30 years into the [[leftist]] [[multicultural]] experiment called the [[Soviet Union]], [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] did an extensive study of the Progressive Doctrine in Volume II of ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''. Solzhenitsyn wrote, {{quotebox|In this study. if nothing prevents us. we intend to, make an important scientific discovery. In the development of our [[hypothesis]] we would in no way wish to come into conflict with the Progressive Teaching. The author of these lines, attracted by the enigma of the native tribe populating the Archipelago, undertook a lengthy scientific expedition there and collected abundant material. And as a result it is very easy to prove that the ''zeks'' [prisoners of the [[gulag]] ]<ref>''zek'' is a Russian slang term similar to "''con''" in English to refer to convicts, however many ''zeks'' were opponents of Socialism, not criminals.</ref> of the Archipelago [[Dialectical materialism|constitute a class]] of society. For, after all, this multitudinous group (of many. millions) has a single (common to them all) relationship to production (namely: subordinate, attached, and without any right to direct that production). It also has a single common relationship to the distribution of the products of labor (namely: no relationship at all, living only that insignificant share of the products required for the meager support of their own existence). And, in addition, all their labor is [[Macroeconomics|no small thing]], but one of the principal constituents of the [[Central planning|whole state economy]].<ref>Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). ''[https://archive.org/stream/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol2__III-IV__Solzhenitsyn#page/n2/mode/2up The Gulag Archipelago]'' (1st ed.) Harper & Row, page 502. </ref>}} Solzhenitsyn explains the role of thieves and criminals in a socialist society. As oppressed victims of the propertied oppressor
30 years into the [[leftist]] [[multicultural]] experiment called the [[Soviet Union]], [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] did an extensive study of the Progressive Doctrine in Volume II of ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''. Solzhenitsyn wrote, {{quotebox|In this study. if nothing prevents us. we intend to, make an important scientific discovery. In the development of our [[hypothesis]] we would in no way wish to come into conflict with the Progressive Teaching. The author of these lines, attracted by the enigma of the native tribe populating the Archipelago, undertook a lengthy scientific expedition there and collected abundant material. And as a result it is very easy to prove that the ''zeks'' [prisoners of the [[gulag]] ]<ref>''zek'' is a Russian slang term similar to "''con''" in English to refer to convicts, however many ''zeks'' were opponents of Socialism, not criminals.</ref> of the Archipelago [[Dialectical materialism|constitute a class]] of society. For, after all, this multitudinous group (of many. millions) has a single (common to them all) relationship to production (namely: subordinate, attached, and without any right to direct that production). It also has a single common relationship to the distribution of the products of labor (namely: no relationship at all, living only that insignificant share of the products required for the meager support of their own existence). And, in addition, all their labor is [[Macroeconomics|no small thing]], but one of the principal constituents of the [[Central planning|whole state economy]].<ref>Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). ''[https://archive.org/stream/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol2__III-IV__Solzhenitsyn#page/n2/mode/2up The Gulag Archipelago]'' (1st ed.) Harper & Row, page 502. </ref>}} Solzhenitsyn explains the role of thieves and criminals in a socialist society. As oppressed victims of the propertied oppressor