Yes. Amity shlaes wrote abut this in The Forgotten Man. The “progressives”, God I hate that word, were pretty disheartened in the 20’s when the economy was booming. They saw their chances to remake the country dashed. But then the great depression happened and they were re-invigorated, the beasts. Many of the progressive leaders who had gone on junkets to Russia to study how they were doing things came back to positions in the Roosevelt administration. They saw all the strife and ruined lives as a VIRTUE, just as they do the strife and ruined lives today. Again I say, the beasts.
Not to mention the Frankfurt School which, when booted by Hitler, ended up in American universities: Maslow, Fromm, Marcuse, et al.
They saw all the strife and ruined lives as a VIRTUE, just as they do the strife and ruined lives today. Again I say, the beasts.
Gotta destroy that bourgeoisie to have a dictatorship of the proletariat, as directed by them.