progressivism

The Fierce Ideological War Between Progressives v. Liberals

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Back in the 1970s, the only big difference between liberals and progressives was that, whereas liberals, such as Hubert Humphrey, supported the military-industrial complex, progressives, such as George McGovern, opposed it. But, now, that difference has become expanded into a vast chasm, in which, whereas liberals support intensification of the […]

The U.S. Democratic Party’s Hypocritical Fakery

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The main remaining difference between America’s liberal versus conservative Parties, the Democratic Party versus the Republican Party, is the amount of hypocrisy, the pretenses that the liberals pretend about their being progressive, which they pretend means their supporting minorities and women and gays against the majority and men and straights. […]

The basic ideological distinction is pro-versus-anti, on imperialism.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Imperialism is the right of one nation to control another nation’s foreign policies and so to nullify the other nation’s sovereignty and independence. It’s the right of one nation to enslave another. To reject imperialism is to deny that right — to deny the right to enslave another nation. Traditionally, […]

How U.S.-and-allied billionaires got progressives to be called ‘fascists’ now, and fascists to be called ‘liberals’ now

Eric Zuesse The examples that will be documented here will be the current Government of Italy, which the billionaires’ ‘news’-media often call ‘fascist’, and the longstanding Government of America, which — when it is controlled by today’s Democratic Party — is routinely called ‘progressive’. Both ideological characterizations will here be challenged: The top commitment of […]

The Difference Between a Liberal and a Progressive

Eric Zuesse The difference between a liberal and a progressive is that whereas a liberal is fooled by liberal or ‘leftist’ billionaires’ ‘news’-media and candidates (emphasizing gay versus straight, man versus woman, black versus white, and everything BUT rich versus poor — since the Party is funded by billionaires), and is therefore a supporter of […]

Cathartic, Dealing with Trauma, on Being Humane

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the […]
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The Progressive Death of Progressivism

Emblematic of our times, the Berniecrat organization Our Revolution – never remotely revolutionary – has rebranded itself as “pragmatic progressive.” This innovation is based on the realization that progressive reforms will never be enacted unless they are fought for.  And, since they are not about to fight President Biden, then it is only programmatic to […]
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Progressivism Versus Liberalism

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture An excellent example of the popular confusion between progressivism and liberalism is an article that was published at Strategic Culture on October 28th by Philip Giraldi, titled “The Disappearing America: Progressives Want a Revolution, Not Just Change”. He criticized — and very correctly so — the U.S. Democratic […]