Ummm, yeah, they are. Instead of being a ignorant **** little hater dupe, how about you take your infantile hater dupe self down to the university and do some research. You would see that the leading progressives of the era in the western countries were ALL in favor of stalins, hitlers, and mussolini's crimes against humanity. They even lauded the wonderfulness of the dictatorial system as being needed to "get real progress done"
So, yes, you ignorant little hater dupe, progressivism IS the most evil, vile government system ever devised. You're just too stupid to figure it out.
That's not progressivism duh that's communism which nobody I know of is in favor of. Everything you know is brainwashed Propaganda, super duper.
Uh, yeah, it is duh, little hater ignorant dupe. Here are what the leading lights of the progressive movement had to say about the Bolshevik Revolution, and take a look at what you progressives want....the same damned things that those commies wanted, a disarmed citizenry, State control over all aspects of life. Progressives ARE commies stupid little hater dupe....
"Progressives generally greeted the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia with great enthusiasm, embracing it as a worthy effort to create a socialist utopia. In the 1920s and 1930s, a host of credulous progressive journalists traveled to Russia to chronicle the the revolution's afterglow, so as to inform Americans about the historic significance of what was transpiring there. According to author Jonah Goldberg: “Most liberals saw the Bolsheviks as a popular and progressive movement.... Nearly the entire liberal elite, including much of FDR's Brain Trust, made the pilgrimage to Moscow to take admiring notes on the Soviet experiment.”
Some journalists, like Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Duranty of
The New York Times, engaged in deliberate lies to conceal the harsh realities of post-revolution Soviet life. In 1933, for instance, at the height of the Ukrainian famine (engineered by Stalin) during which millions starved to death, Duranty wrote that “village markets [were] flowing with eggs, fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter.... A child can see this is not famine but abundance.”
The education reformer and socialist John Dewey was likewise impressed with Soviet society. In 1924 the pacifist and progressive activist Lillian Wald visited Russia’s “experimental schools” and happily reported that Dewey’s ideas (promoting collectivism as a philosophy and as a way of life) were being implemented “not less than 150 per cent.”
NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois marveled: “I stand in astonishment and wonder at the revelation of Russia that has come to me....
f what I have seen with my eyes and heard with my ears in Russia is Bolshevism, I am a Bolshevik.”