Progressivism is a revival of slavery. Only, instead of a few owning slaves, all will be owned by the state.
With regard to workers, they are regarded by progressives as “wage slaves” when working for private enterprise, just as Southern slaveowners and Marx said.
Coordinate with this economic ordering of society, is a sociological. Just as the Dred Scot decision said American was founded in racism, so do progressives.
In contrast, Lincoln, in his Cooper Union address, said the Founders (at least the majority of them) viewed freedom and equality as the ideal. His cited many instances in which Founders had opportunity to express themselves on the subject, such as the passage of the Northwest Ordinance. He could have (but didn’t) list the “freedom cases” that preceded Dred Scot, including in particular those that had reached the Supreme Court. Lincoln said Dred Scot was wrongly decided and that we would work peacefully to overrule that decision through the long process of replacing justices on the Supreme Court. But, sadly, that was not how we overturned Dred Scot.
It is time to re-dedicate ourselves to the founding principles of this country: that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
Thats why we call them Regressives.
Marxism is just a new version of Feudalism, and this time the manor lords are called “bureaucrats”.