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[[Image:630px-Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Theodore Roosevelt, first progressive president]]
[[Image:630px-Theodore Roosevelt in 1918.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Theodore Roosevelt, first progressive president]]
'''Progressivism''' (or '''Progressive Ideology''') is a narrow ideology born in America that puts a heavy emphasis on [[administrative state]], separated from the political process, engages in centralized [[economic planning]], and has the power and expertise to make quick decisions.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-on-administration Woodrow Wilson on Administration]</ref> Progressives are quick to point to their label and proclaim that they stand for "progress",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=khyQiT0HxIEC The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country], John Podesta</ref> but do everything they can to hide the fact that where they want to make progress to is a big government that is in control of every aspect of Americans' lives.
'''Progressivism''' (or '''Progressive Ideology''') is a narrow ideology born in America and spread throughout the world that puts a heavy emphasis on [[administrative state]], separated from the political process, engages in centralized [[economic planning]], and has the power and expertise to make quick decisions.<ref>[https://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-on-administration Woodrow Wilson on Administration]</ref> Progressives are quick to point to their label and proclaim that they stand for "progress",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=khyQiT0HxIEC The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country], John Podesta</ref> but do everything they can to hide the fact that where they want to make progress to is a big government that is in control of every aspect of Americans' lives.
[[Image:HenryGeorge.png|thumb|110px|right|Henry George wrote the book that inspired the use of the word "progress" in the name of progressivism.]]
[[Image:HenryGeorge.png|thumb|110px|right|Henry George wrote the book that inspired the use of the word "progress" in the name of progressivism.]]
Since the 1960s and the [[New Left]] Movement, Progressivism has largely been synonymous with [[Communism]]/[[leftism]]. Earlier Progressivism, while staunchly in favor of [[Big Government]], was equally critical of communist and socialist viewpoints.
Since the 1960s and the [[New Left]] Movement, Progressivism has largely been synonymous with [[Communism]]/[[leftism]]. Earlier Progressivism, while staunchly in favor of [[Big Government]], was equally critical of communist and socialist viewpoints.
For 120 years, progressives have made clear that they are unhappy about how the country was founded and have sought to erase it at every opportunity.
For 120 years, progressives have made clear that they are unhappy about how the country was founded and have sought to erase it at every opportunity.
===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]] ] 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 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>}} Elsewhere Solzhenitsyn documents how forced labor from Czarist times was brought into line with Progressive Doctrine,<ref>''Gulag'', page 76.</ref> as well as thieves, being victims of the propertied class, were social allies ("social friends" or "socially friendly") of progressives in Marxist [[class war]] theory of "oppressor" versus "oppressed", among other progressive goals and teaching.<ref>''Gulag'', Page 422, 425 ''et seqq.''</ref> Solzhenitsyn goes into some detail how progressives deal with political opposition and dissenters in socialist re-education camps (gulags):
{{quotebox|It has been known for centuries that Hunger . . . rules the world! (And all your Progressive Doctrine is, incidentally, built on Hunger, on the thesis that hungry people will inevitably revolt against the well-fed.) Hunger rules every hungry human being, unless he has himself consciously decided to die. Hunger, which forces an honest person to reach out and steal ("When the belly rumbles, conscience flees"). Hunger, which compels the most unselfish person to look with envy into someone else's bowl, and to try painfuIly to estimate what weight of ration his neighbor is receiving. Hunger, which darkens the brain and refuses to allow it to be distracted by anything else at all, or to think about anything else at all, or to speak about anything else at all except food, food, and food. Hunger, from which it is impossible to escape even in dreams-dreams are about food, and insomnia is over food. And soon-just insomnia. Hunger, after which one cannot even eat up; the man has by then turned into a one-way pipe and everything emerges from him in exactly the same state in which it was swallowed.<ref>Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). The Gulag Archipelago (1st ed.) Harper & Row, page 209.</ref>}}
==Progressivism or Liberalism?==
==Progressivism or Liberalism?==