RayR wrote:You give me the Wikipedia introduction to what is Progressivism? Progressivism is all "about enlightenment and positive social reform"??? Unicorns and rainbows and free lollypops for all the proles too and I guess?
Or did the promises of Progressivism as all Utopian movements do that claim "to represent the interests of ordinary people through political change and the support of government actions" (that's what every collectivist movement and dictator says too BTW), actually lead to a decent into the warfare-welfare state and its not so positive social reforms.
I prefer serious investigations into history, political movements, their origins and their legacy. Wikipedia is not a go-to place for such things. So I give you a book to read if you'd like, it's FREE too, and a million times more enlightening than Wikipedia, and if you can't or don't read there's the free audiobook version to download. Let's see then if you slough this off as published by morons.
https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-0
Man.... "Mises Institute"
Hadn't heard of that one... had to look it up.
The first red flag is calling themselves an "Institute". It screams "Prager U" at first.
Then, I had to read this description twice: "The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think-tank located in Auburn, Alabama"....
That's right folks. A Think Tank in Alabama. They mainly think about screwing their sister. But it's definitely a think tank.
But hey! they offer Masters program in austrian economics! That's totally brilliant.... oh.... they are un-accredited? Well that means their Masters has about as much value as a Prager U seminar, or Trump University.
Sigh.
Ok. Maybe this book linked will prove to be of some value.
Written in 2017... by Murray Rothbard.... who died in 1995..... that seems odd.
Ok... well let's see what the description is...
Quote:
Progressivism brought the triumph of institutionalized racism, the disfranchising of blacks in the South, the cutting off of immigration, the building up of trade unions by the federal government into a tripartite of big government, big business, big union alliance, the glorifying of military virtues and conscription, and a drive for American expansion abroad. In short, the Progressive era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being.
Yeah.... no. There's way too much demonizing of any group there for there to be accuracy.
So.... the most curious thing about this... RayR is accusing people of being "marxist progressives"
But the guy who wrote this book he wants everyone to read about the evils of progressives was atheist.
Such poor logic.