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===Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party===

===Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party===

The ''Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party'' says this about the [[Chinese Communist Party]]:

The ''Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party'' says this about the [[Chinese Communist Party]]:

{{quotebox|The level of [[violence]] employed by a form of government determines its level of [[civilization]]. By resorting to the use of violence, communist regimes clearly represent a huge step backward in the level of civilization. Unfortunately, the Communist Party has been seen as [[progressive]] by those who believe that violence is an essential and inevitable means to societal advancement."<ref>http://www.ninecommentaries.com/english-1</ref>}}

{{quotebox|The level of [[violence]] employed by a form of government determines its level of [[civilization]]. By resorting to the use of violence, communist regimes clearly represent a huge step backward in the level of civilization. Unfortunately, the Communist Party has been seen as progressive by those who believe that violence is an essential and inevitable means to societal advancement."<ref>http://www.ninecommentaries.com/english-1</ref>}}

===Progressive era 1892-1924===

===Progressive era 1892-1924===

===Presidential election 1948===

===Presidential election 1948===

:{{Main article|United States presidential election, 1948}}

:{{Main article|United States presidential election, 1948}}

The [[Progressive Party]] of 1948 was [[Communist front|a creation of]] the [[Communist Party USA]],<ref>Barry Loberfeld, "[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11398 The Real Meaning of "Progressive" Politics], FrontPageMagazine.com, September 28, 2004</ref> growing out of [[CPUSA]] General Secretary Eugene Dennis' February 12, 1946 order "to establish in time for the 1948 elections a national third party."<ref>Eugene Dennis, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TafcYQEACAAJ What America Faces]'' (New York: New Century Publishers, 1946), pp. 37-38. Cf. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=yeoSSLzr-jAC The vital center: the politics of freedom]'' (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009896, p. 115; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LLyNX6hMDCIC A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950]'' (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000) ISBN 0618219250, pp. 455-456; Karl M. Schmidt, ''[http://ia700307.us.archive.org/34/items/henryawallace006268mbp/henryawallace006268mbp.pdf Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948]'' (Syracuse University Press, 1960), p. 265 (PDF p. 291)</ref> The Progressive Party's candidate for President was [[Henry Wallace]], one of [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s former [[Vice president|Vice Presidents]].  Wallace was reportedly "most impressed" with Soviet collective farming,<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Henry_Wallace.htm Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd Vice President (1941-1945)], Senate History, United States Senate</ref> and in 1933 had urged FDR to become a "farm dictator."<ref>"[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4061FF83C5C16738DDDAB0994DB405B838FF1D3 Roosevelt Is Urged to Ask Wide Power as 'Farm Dictator']," ''The New York Times'', March 12, 1933, p. 1</ref>  Wallace said if he were to become President, he would appoint as Secretary of State the pro-Soviet [[Laurence Duggan]],<ref>Ethan Bronner, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/18/weekinreview/witching-hour-rethinking-mccarthyism-if-not-mccarthy.html?pagewanted=all WitchMay 9, 2008ing Hour; Rethinking McCarthyism, if Not McCarthy]," October 18, 1998</ref> now known to have been a Soviet agent.<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18nov_lawrence_duggan.pdf 1613 KGB New York to Moscow, 19 November 1944]</ref>  Had [[FDR]] died 82 days earlier, Wallace would indeed have become President.<ref>William C. Martel, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZvWBQAAQBAJ Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 1107082064, p. 472</ref>  Wallace finally recanted his support for the [[Soviet Union]]<ref>Linda Rodriguez, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080512163401/https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/09/almost.great.men/index.html A celebration of almost-great men], CNN.com, May 9, 2008</ref> in 1952.<ref>Henry Agard Wallace, “Where I Was Wrong.” ''This Week'', September 2, 1952</ref>  In 1955, the [[SISS|Jenner subcommittee]] cited the Progressive Party on its list of [[subversive]] organizations, identified as a [[Communist front]].<ref>[http://www.joincalifornia.com/party/Independent%20Progressive Independent Progressive], joincalifornia.com</ref>

The [[Progressive Party]] of 1948 was [[Communist front|a creation of]] the [[Communist Party USA]],<ref>Barry Loberfeld, "[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11398 The Real Meaning of "Progressive" Politics], FrontPageMagazine.com, September 28, 2004</ref> growing out of [[CPUSA]] General Secretary Eugene Dennis' February 12, 1946 order "to establish in time for the 1948 elections a national third party."<ref>Eugene Dennis, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=TafcYQEACAAJ What America Faces]'' (New York: New Century Publishers, 1946), pp. 37-38. Cf. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=yeoSSLzr-jAC The vital center: the politics of freedom]'' (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009896, p. 115; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LLyNX6hMDCIC A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950]'' (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000) ISBN 0618219250, pp. 455-456; Karl M. Schmidt, ''[http://ia700307.us.archive.org/34/items/henryawallace006268mbp/henryawallace006268mbp.pdf Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948]'' (Syracuse University Press, 1960), p. 265 (PDF p. 291)</ref> The Progressive Party's candidate for president was [[Henry Wallace]], one of [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s former [[Vice president|Vice Presidents]].  Wallace was reportedly "most impressed" with Soviet collective farming,<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Henry_Wallace.htm Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd Vice President (1941-1945)], Senate History, United States Senate</ref> and in 1933 had urged FDR to become a "farm dictator."<ref>"[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4061FF83C5C16738DDDAB0994DB405B838FF1D3 Roosevelt Is Urged to Ask Wide Power as 'Farm Dictator']," ''The New York Times'', March 12, 1933, p. 1</ref>  Wallace said if he were to become president, he would appoint as Secretary of State the pro-Soviet [[Laurence Duggan]],<ref>Ethan Bronner, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/18/weekinreview/witching-hour-rethinking-mccarthyism-if-not-mccarthy.html?pagewanted=all WitchMay 9, 2008ing Hour; Rethinking McCarthyism, if Not McCarthy]," October 18, 1998</ref> now known to have been a Soviet agent.<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18nov_lawrence_duggan.pdf 1613 KGB New York to Moscow, 19 November 1944]</ref>  Had [[FDR]] died 82 days earlier, Wallace would indeed have become president.<ref>William C. Martel, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZvWBQAAQBAJ Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 1107082064, p. 472</ref>  Wallace finally recanted his support for the [[Soviet Union]]<ref>Linda Rodriguez, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080512163401/https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/09/almost.great.men/index.html A celebration of almost-great men], CNN.com, May 9, 2008</ref> in 1952.<ref>Henry Agard Wallace, “Where I Was Wrong.” ''This Week'', September 2, 1952</ref>  In 1955, the [[SISS|Jenner subcommittee]] cited the Progressive Party on its list of [[subversive]] organizations, identified as a [[Communist front]].<ref>[http://www.joincalifornia.com/party/Independent%20Progressive Independent Progressive], joincalifornia.com</ref>

===Peoples Temple 1955-1978===

===Peoples Temple 1955-1978===

===Antifa revolution 2017===

===Antifa revolution 2017===

:{{See also|Antifa|Leftwing violence in the Trump era|Liberal fascism|2020 Antifa riots}}

:{{See also|Antifa|Leftwing violence in the Trump era|Liberal fascism|2020 Antifa riots}}

[[Progressive]]s defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to black soldiers in the [[Civil War]] as Antifa protests moved through the city. A website dedicated to the memorial, which stands at the top of a hill on the Boston Common, explains:

Progressives defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to black soldiers in the [[Civil War]] as Antifa protests moved through the city. A website dedicated to the memorial, which stands at the top of a hill on the Boston Common, explains:

{{Quotebox|The most acclaimed piece of sculpture on Boston Common is the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens; a memorial to that group of men who were among the first African Americans to fight in the Civil War. The monument portrays Shaw and his men marching down Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863 as they left Boston on their way to South Carolina, Shaw erect on his horse, the men marching alongside.}}

{{Quotebox|The most acclaimed piece of sculpture on Boston Common is the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens; a memorial to that group of men who were among the first African Americans to fight in the Civil War. The monument portrays Shaw and his men marching down Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863 as they left Boston on their way to South Carolina, Shaw erect on his horse, the men marching alongside.}}

The monument, which commemorates black lives dedicated and sacrificed to the struggle against slavery, was defaced with profane anti-police graffiti, as well as tributes to [[George Floyd]].<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/rioters-deface-monument-black-civil-war-veterans-served-union/</ref> The story of the 54th was immortalized in the Hollywood movie ''Glory'', for which [[Denzel Washington]] received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

The monument, which commemorates black lives dedicated and sacrificed to the struggle against slavery, was defaced with profane anti-police graffiti, as well as tributes to [[George Floyd]].<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/rioters-deface-monument-black-civil-war-veterans-served-union/</ref> The story of the 54th was immortalized in the Hollywood movie ''Glory'', for which [[Denzel Washington]] received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

While progressives seek radical social change, it is often pursued incrementally. Two examples serve in the Obama era: Obamacare and same-sex "marriage".

While progressives seek radical social change, it is often pursued incrementally. Two examples serve in the Obama era: Obamacare and same-sex "marriage".

Obamacare, with its individual and employer dictates, was designed to fail. The progressive objective of a [[big government]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-style [[single payer]] system was too radical a change to implement during the brief window of opportunity given between 2009-2011, when Democrats controlled both the [[White House]] and a veto-proof Congress. Progressives settled on a system that allowed private insurance companies to continue to operate, provided they sold only policies dictated by progressive regulators. A dictate that all American adults - working or not working - be required to purchase insurance, or submit to eligibility requirements for [[entitlement]] care by means testing, was also implemented. Penalties accrued for anyone non-compliant. The plan was phased in over a period of election cycles with the hope that those who received a subsidized entitlement would appreciate "free healthcare," and when the plan failed would support a progressive single payer system. The single payer system then would need progressives in Congress perpetually to ensure its annual funding.

Obamacare, with its individual and employer dictates, was designed to fail. The progressive objective of a [[big government]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-style [[single payer]] system was too radical a change to implement during the brief window of opportunity given between 2009 and 2011, when Democrats controlled both the [[White House]] and a veto-proof Congress. Progressives settled on a system that allowed private insurance companies to continue to operate, provided they sold only policies dictated by progressive regulators. A dictate that all American adults - working or not working - be required to purchase insurance, or submit to eligibility requirements for [[entitlement]] care by means testing, was also implemented. Penalties accrued for anyone non-compliant. The plan was phased in over a period of election cycles with the hope that those who received a subsidized entitlement would appreciate "free healthcare," and when the plan failed would support a progressive single payer system. The single payer system then would need progressives in Congress perpetually to ensure its annual funding.

===Same-sex "marriage"===

===Same-sex "marriage"===

[[File:Fauci3.JPG|right|275px|thumb|[[Anthony Fauci]].]]

[[File:Fauci3.JPG|right|275px|thumb|[[Anthony Fauci]].]]

The first hurdle in the [[homosexual "rights"]] movement was overcoming the progressive reform of the 1950s that treated criminals as victims of psychological disorders. By the 1960s [[homosexuality]] was considered by experts and the [[court]]s as both a [[crime]] and a [[mental illness]]. Due to claimed "ethical concerns" over locking people up on the basis of a psychological disorder (but in reality, due to political pressure imposed by radical homosexual activists<ref name="AmericanActivism">{{cite book |title=Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism |author=David De Leon |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1994 |pages=253–259 |isbn=978-03132-74145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHYD-XUiSBEC |quote=Early on Kameny developed an absolute belief in the validity of his intellectual processes and a habit of challenging accepted orthodoxies.}}</ref><ref name="Bestiality OK">{{cite web |url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/prominent-homosexual-activist-says-bestiality-ok-as-long-as-the-animal-does |author=Peter J. Smith |title=Prominent Homosexual Activist Says Bestiality OK "As Long as the Animal Doesn’t Mind" |publisher=LifeSiteNews.com |date=4 Jun 2008  |accessdate=13 December 2015 |quote=}}</ref>), the psychiatric profession dropped the diagnosis of homosexuality as a mental disorder in the early 1970s. In the 1980s, the states began decriminalizing homosexuality with the idea that law enforcement resources could be better utilized elsewhere, the [[war on drugs]] for example. With homosexuality "normalized" now, by the 1990s the [[Equal protection]] clause was being invoked for a group in the [[coalition]] of [[identity politics]].

The first hurdle in the [[homosexual "rights"]] movement was overcoming the progressive reform of the 1950s that treated criminals as victims of psychological disorders. By the 1960s [[homosexuality]] was considered by experts and the [[court]]s as both a [[crime]] and a [[mental illness]]. Due to claimed "ethical concerns" over locking people up on the basis of a psychological disorder (but in reality, due to political pressure imposed by radical homosexual activists<ref name="AmericanActivism">{{cite book |title=Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism |author=David De Leon |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1994 |pages=253–259 |isbn=978-03132-74145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHYD-XUiSBEC |quote=Early on Kameny developed an absolute belief in the validity of his intellectual processes and a habit of challenging accepted orthodoxies.}}</ref><ref name="Bestiality OK">{{cite web |url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/prominent-homosexual-activist-says-bestiality-ok-as-long-as-the-animal-does |author=Peter J. Smith |title=Prominent Homosexual Activist Says Bestiality OK "As Long as the Animal Doesn't Mind" |publisher=LifeSiteNews.com |date=4 Jun 2008  |accessdate=13 December 2015 |quote=}}</ref>), the psychiatric profession dropped the diagnosis of homosexuality as a mental disorder in the early 1970s. In the 1980s, the states began decriminalizing homosexuality with the idea that law enforcement resources could be better utilized elsewhere, the [[war on drugs]] for example. With homosexuality "normalized" now, by the 1990s the [[Equal protection]] clause was being invoked for a group in the [[coalition]] of [[identity politics]].

===Transgenderism===

===Transgenderism===