The Progressive Movement; Genocide for the Right Reasons

The Progressive Movement had much of it's start with Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in 1912. The party's platform promised a new contract with the people The platform was the same as it is with Progressives today. It believed in big government to regulate industry and protect the working class. This included; social welfare, health insurance, higher and more taxes (inheritance and income), more strength to unions and bank reform. The Progressives also saw what they believed were serious flaws with the current structure of the government, called for ways to recall judicial decisions that they did not agree with and easier methods to amend the US Constitution. It is no coincidence that this Progressive Movement started at a time soon after Charles Darwin and Karl Marx published their nihilistic works, and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia that would end in victory in 1917.

With the Origin of the Species, Darwin finally allowed science to remove the exceptionalism of mankind that exists in religion and Marx redefined the value of human life by it's ability to serve the communist society,"The classes and the races too weak to master the new conditions of life must give way… They must perish in the revolutionary holocaust". This in turn led to the Eugenics movement by Darwin's half cousin, Sir Frances Galton. Galton never justified genocide, but dehumanized the population into those that deserved life and those that don't. Margarette Sanger, the founder of Planned parenthood and an avid Eugenicist, remarked, "We can not improve the race until we first cut down production of it's least desirable members." Sanger wrote extensively on population control, encouraging forced sterilization and abortions. One of her greatest fans was Adolf Hitler who praised her writings and is believed to have had a strong influence on Hitler's "Final Solution".

The Progessives continue to extol the the philosophy of Marx, Mao and Stalin and yet recoil in horror at National Socialism and Adolf Hitler? The reason is both complex and simple. The simple answer is the Progressive movement, after embracing pre-war fascism, immediately distanced itself, once the Holocaust was publicized. While genocide may seem the obvious rational, history has shown that reasoning to be faulty; Progressives have no problem with genocide as long as it suits their agenda. The real answer is twofold; the first was the lack of deny-ability. When Progressives find themselves on the wrong side of history (as the always do), they deny the facts and/or rewrite history. While Stalin and Mao kept their genocide hidden behind closed doors for decades, Dwight Eisenhower ordered "Document everything"..."because the day will come when this will be denied".

Other than capitalism however, fascism contains all the philosophy of Progressives. First you have Eugenics, the belief that the cultural elite is genetically superior and the useless eaters of the world need to be extinguished. As George Bernard Shaw said, “If you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the big organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.” The Progressive Eugenics purveyors included Shaw, Julian Huxley, Charles Darwin, HG Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Marie Stopes (co-founder of planned parenthood with Margaret Sanger) and George Orwell. The Eugenic forced sterilizations in the United States of blacks in the 1920's, peaked the interest of Hitler, which he incorporated in his book Mein Kampf.

Then you have Anti-Semitism of the intellectual left; even those that are Jewish themselves. Karl Marx was the personification of the self hating Jew. Prior to the establishment of Israel, the Arab Muslim members of the United Nations had already declared Israel an illegal state that had to be destroyed; the UN further ordered an embargo of any weapons into the area presuming it would lead to Israel's annihilation. The UN has always been the dream of the Intellectual left and their progressive plan for world government. Since that time through 2002, the Security Council "condemned", "censured", "deplored"or "strongly deplored". Israel 49 times; the Arabs: Zero. And while it has been impossible to deny the Holocaust, the progressive continue to court deniers such as Iran's President Ahmadinejad who was asked to speak at Columbia University a few years ago. Finally there is failure of the intellectual left criticize Islamic Terrorism. Recent school curriculum's, always a product of the intellectual left, defines Jesus (of Nazareth) as a young Palestinian and the 9/11 murderers were not Islamic Fundamentalists but simply a generic "teams of terrorists." Hitler also promoted universal healthcare (for productive citizens). One could say that fascism took capitalism from the right and socialism and genocide from the left

One of the core beliefs of the Progressive movement is "Sustainable Development"; this is a code word for population control. The United Nations has Agenda 21, which basically says to deny resources until the population is sustainable. The Malthusism take on population control is there are two checks; positive ones, which raise the death rate, and preventative ones, which lower the birth rate. Interestingly enough, Marx never talked of genocide. Marx believed that over-population was a byproduct of capitalism. Marx talked of the The Revolution, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the Destruction of the Capitalist State, the Liquidation of the Bourgeoisie, and the Creation of Socialism; of the Bourgeoisie class Marx said it should be, " swept out of the way and made impossible". While he meant this figuratively, Stalin, Mao and Pot did not. The Point of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, was to regenerate man to perfection,"In communist society, where no one has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd, or critic." Marx believed that science would create the environment for this perfect man, dwelling in this perfect society. What became apparent to all subsequent communists dictators is, it is much easier to kill a man than re-educate him; so they did so by the tens of millions. Further if one was to live in the Socialistic perfection of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need", is much easier with a reduced population; the. After 2-3 million Cambodians died from the forced evacuations of the cities, Pol Pot's foreign ministered stated, "As long as we have one million left, that will be enough to make the new man." The Progressives distanced themselves from Hitler, because he annihilated the Jews out of hatred. But deaths of ten times the Jewish Holocaust, are acceptable means as non-regenerated masses are sub-human and the end will be an improved, regenerated species. This is the second answer; the rationalization of the elite, that they the Progressives will be the administrators as mankind is perfected.

Hitler-13 million
Stalin- 43 million
Mao- 50-70 million

The swastika, the hammer and sickle, or the red star; they represent the Intellectual left and progressives attempts to wrest the worker from the rich industrialist so they can administer their annihilation; it's how it always turns out. Once again we learn that Einstein was right, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So much for intellectualism and the Progressive agenda.