Today’s Code Word – Progressivism
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What they tell you
Progressivism – Is a political philosophy whose adherents promote public policies that they believe would lead to positive social change. Today the term refers to movements on the left ranging from liberal to social democrat.
What is means
The socialist idea sounded altruistic to those who began it long ago, and it sounds altruistic to the naive who believe in it today. In practice, however, it creates self-centered individuals and a narcissistic society. So while it may have begun as a way to help others, it has come to mean a way of evading responsibility for oneself and for others. It is intended to produce a more evenly spread distribution of wealth. They just simply changed the name to make it sound more appealing. Implicit in the word “progressivism” is the assumption that the policies advocated by progressives are a form of progress. Those policies are nothing than redistribution avenues of your wealth, aka SOCIALISM.
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N.Onimous, I suspect you probably knew that I would not let this one lie unattended. With all due respect, it appears as though you believe that altruism is a laudable ethical model? And that only if socialism was truly “altruistic” that it would be ideal? That were it not for some intellectual gamesmanship by some unknown lever puller, socialism might pass as an equally ideal model for society provided it was, in fact, purely altruistic? I will respectfully disagree with this implicit assumption.
I would suggest that “progressivism” is nothing more than code concocted by philosophical socialists to refer to one who merely believes in using the full force of government to advance specific social engineering, to affect specific political outcomes, and to control the factors of production so as to manipulate and redistribute wealth. The key feature is government control, when and how much is merely an adjustment to the volume control of tyranny.
To suggest then, that progressivism is a form of socialism is correct. More genrally, it is a form of collectivism. But to say that those who follow such a code are merely being deluded if they think it is a form of altruism, ostensibly a respectible theory of moral decision making, is to suggest, at least partially, that altruism, per se, as an ethical model is in some way good I belief is false.
I would draw a very bold distinct line here between an ethical model, altruism, with individually motivated actions that can be truly described as honest benevolence. In my view, the former precludes the existence of the latter.
Confusion, if any exists, is between the concept of true benevolence and a philosophical system of decision making such as altruism. So, if what you meant was that there are some “progressives” who somehow have deluded themselves into thinking that their policies are designed to be benevolent then you dead on correct… I think you can clearly see that there is no G in benevolent!
Please note corrections… wish I had more time today to respond to this one, this is a big deal. Worthy of substantial wax.