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===Colonialism and the Enlightenment===

===Colonialism and the Enlightenment===

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 [[colonialism|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 [[colonialism|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>

===Marxism===

===Marxism===

In Europe however, after the [[First World War]], Progressive [[atheist]]s won a great victory with the [[Bolshevik]] Revolution in Russia, the suppression of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and overthrow of the existing social order.

In Europe however, after the [[First World War]], Progressive [[atheist]]s won a great victory with the [[Bolshevik]] Revolution in Russia, the suppression of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and overthrow of the existing social order.

In explaining the ruinous upheavals Progressivism brought to his homeland, [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] said, {{quotebox|"while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen [[Russia]]: Men have forgotten [[God]]; that’s why all this has happened."<ref>http://orthochristian.com/47643.html</ref>>}}

In explaining the ruinous upheavals Progressivism brought to his homeland, [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] said, {{quotebox|"while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen [[Russia]]: Men have forgotten [[God]]; that’s why all this has happened."<ref>http://orthochristian.com/47643.html</ref>}}

===Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Progressive Doctrine===

===Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Progressive Doctrine===

   

   

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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  

   

   

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