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Progressivism refers to any ideology or movement that advances the class struggle and seeks to move society to a higher mode of production.[1]
Relation with liberalism[edit | edit source]
Under capitalism, liberals tend to oppose progressive action everywhere and show false sympathy with progressive thought. They are a common compliment to reactionary movements due to their ratchet-like behavior against left-wing movements.
To quote MLK,
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
— Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
In the above, he describes the ways in which Statesian liberals retarded or otherwise hampered the development of Black Statesians' rights during the USA Civil Rights movement.
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ “Marx's method consists of gradually ascending from the simplest of economic categories to more complex ones, which corresponds to the progressive development of society on an ascending line, from lower stages to higher.”
Lev Gatovsky, I. I. Kuzminov, Ivan Laptev, Lev Leontyev, Konstantin Ostrovityanov, Anatoly Pashkov, V. I. Pereslegin, Dmitri Shepilov, Vladimir Starovsky, Pavel Yudin (1954). Political Economy. MIA.