The godfather of IRR was William Simon U'Ren, who said: (link)
I read Progress and Poverty in 1882, and I went just as crazy over the Single Tax idea as any one else ever did. I knew I wanted the Single Tax, and that was about all I did know. I thought I could get it by agitation, and was often disgusted with a world that refused to be agitated for what I wanted. In 1882 (sic) I learned what the Initiative and Referendum is, and then I saw the way to the Single Tax. SO I QUIT TALKING SINGLE TAX, not because I was any the less in favor of it but because I saw that the first job was to get the Initiative and Referendum, so that the people independently of the Legislature, may get what they want rather than take what the Legislature will let them have.
It's all about Henry George. The ends justify the means.
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Saying George wasn’t bad is an error. He just wanted a DIFFERENT level of bad than the others. His ideas were simply less stinky shit compared to the rest.
He was against everything this country was meant to be. So were the early so-called progressives. The modern ones are over the top Frankfurt School bad by comparison (they actually stink worse than Marx).
Communism was the leader of progressivism....not the other way around
Thank you very much for posting this.
Marxist, Communist, Progressive, Nazi, Leftist, Georgist, Socialist, Gramscian, etc...Dozens and dozens of Marxist-oriented authors wrote endlessly their version of what the ideal collective social order should look like...
A poisonous snake is a poisonous snake...Big deal...They all need extermination for (in this case) the same two reasons: Individual freedom & liberty!
Actually, you could argue that the name is simply satan.
The desires of these folks go back to the commandments - don’t steal, don’t covet...
If the alleged distinction between progressivism and communism can’t be articulated in a single sentence, then there is no real distinction.
And I’m talking about distinction in ideological content, not names of people.