PoliticalChic
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8. Before WW II, the same folks who championed Progressivism, viewed fascism as a noble economic agenda, and praised Mussolini. It was the horrors of the Holocaust that required both the rapid retreat from associations with the term fascism, and the rebranding by John Dewey of progressivism as liberalism.
American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism. “Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223
The characteristics of Progressivism included a belief in eugenics, imperialism, proudly hostile to individualism, the conviction that the state could, though planning and pressure, create a society of ‘new men.’ Compare this to another totalist philosophy:
Parallel ideological movements germinated in various fertile grounds: called Fascism in Italy; National Socialism in Germany; Progressivism in America.
In short…..the Democrat Party.
American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism. “Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1223
The characteristics of Progressivism included a belief in eugenics, imperialism, proudly hostile to individualism, the conviction that the state could, though planning and pressure, create a society of ‘new men.’ Compare this to another totalist philosophy:
Parallel ideological movements germinated in various fertile grounds: called Fascism in Italy; National Socialism in Germany; Progressivism in America.
In short…..the Democrat Party.