Leninism: The Highest Stage of Progressivism

American Greatness ^ | 4 Dec, 2019 | Ken Masugi

[MtnClimber]

As the talk of socialism becomes more widespread on the Left, particularly within Democratic party politics, and as anger at President Trump boils over, the advocacy of political scientists will become even clearer: first, Progressivism, then socialism, and ultimately, Leninism....

A contrary example both of the theory and practice of politics, because its focus is on advancing the principles of the Declaration of Independence, are the panels and scholarship sponsored by the Claremont Institute—recently honored at the White House with the National Humanities Medal.

So Claremont has its work cut out for it. How far will the Left take political science? We all know as well, when the political Left wants legitimacy, it does not turn to the people but to academics, as it has in the impeachment inquiry. Factions within the political science profession, bored by the dominant behaviorist and quantitative approaches to the discipline, have agitated for more connection between scholarship and its policy implications...…

Recently the brilliant scholar of Russian literature, Gary Saul Morson, once again illuminated the extremism of our intellectual class in his essay, “Leninthink.” Morson reminds us that “Lenin did more than anyone else to shape the last hundred years.” That includes the intelligentsia and activists on the American Left, too: power must never be restrained by law or reason. This is why George Orwell, who knew this type well, declared, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that . . . .”

If this doesn’t sound like all on the Left today, don’t forget, as Morson observes, “The whole point of Leninism is that only a few people must understand what is going on.”

[MtnClimber]

The never ending battle between good and evil.

[NFHale]

“...first, Progressivism, then socialism, and ultimately, Leninism....”

Then the Rifle safeties get clicked to OFF and the REAL Resistance begins - with no f*cking hashtag.

We’re NOT going to play that sh*t here, not in the Country my family fought and died to defend AGAINST that same crap.

[Wildbill22]

Why is the right so afraid to call communism “evil”?

Does it not portray many, if not every aspect of evil?

Greed, deception, theft, murder (on a massive industrial scale in the USSR and Red China), killing the most innocent (abortion), total abandonment of morality (means justify ends), idolatry, as well as intellectual dishonesty, and denial of free will.

[Bonemaker]

They’ve got it bass ackwards. Should be Leninism, socialism then “progressiveism”. Today’s democrats/progressives are far beyond Lenin and garden variety socialism in their ultra radical extremism.