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Originally Posted by Wagner
You may want to redefine yourself then if you believe that progressivism doesn't have fascist roots. TR hated monopolies (ala Standard Oil) unless they were government monopolies. But had he not done what he did, this world would be far worse off. We have very few companies today as corrupt as standard oils monopoly practices.
- Out of the book I mentioned.
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I disagree. I think there is not a clear understanding of what progresssivism means, especially given that snippet from Goldberg's (not exactly a neutral observer, him) book that you quote. Progressives fought the Nazis in Europe. Progressives led (and lead) the human rights movements in throughout the world in such places as India, all the former British colonies, here in our country, and in South Africa, for instance. None of those extraordinary efforts have anything in common with Fascism or Nazism. Quite the opposite.
The recent hackneyed attempts to associate progressivism with fascism changes nothing about that progressive legacy. Such attempts are examples of what I mentioned in the other thread about insincerity in debate.