{"id":387224,"date":"2018-12-01T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-is-progressivism-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:01:17","slug":"what-is-progressivism-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-is-progressivism-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Progressivism? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Progressivism is the same as socialism. Libertarian James Ostrowski, who has\u00a0written a book on progressivism,\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0\u201c\u2026that progressivism, properly understood as the belief that aggressive state violence in the form of various interventions into the market and private voluntary behavior will improve human life, is America\u2019s ruling ideology\u2026\u201d For purposes of educating the public and understanding the gist of the libertarian and anti-libertarian positions, there\u2019s no significant difference between his explanation of progressivism and my\u00a0explanation<\/a>\u00a0of socialism. Furthermore, both are compatible with Hans-Hermann Hoppe\u2019s definition of socialism: \u201c\u2026socialism\u2026must be conceptualized as an institutionalized interference with or aggression against private property and private property claims.\u201d (On p. 10 of Hoppe\u2019s \u201cA Theory of Socialism and Capitalism<\/em><\/a>\u201c.)<\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u00a0is a socialist and a progressive. Either description tells the same story about where he stands: \u201c\u2026taking on the billionaire class, health care for all through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system, raising the minimum wage to a living wage \u2014 15 bucks an hour \u2014 demanding that the wealthy and the powerful start paying their fair share of taxes, dealing with climate change, etc.,\u2026\u201d He has every intention of intervening in the market and private voluntary behavior (Ostrowski\u2019s words), or of having government take a controlling role in the production and distribution of goods (Rozeff\u2019s words), or of launching aggression against private property (Hoppe\u2019s words).
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Progressivism is the same as socialism. Libertarian James Ostrowski, who has\u00a0written a book on progressivism,\u00a0writes\u00a0\u201c\u2026that progressivism, properly understood as the belief that aggressive state violence in the form of various interventions into the market and private voluntary behavior will improve human life, is America\u2019s ruling ideology\u2026\u201d For purposes of educating the public and understanding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}