Scott Stantis continues to confuse PROgressive views with Marxism in a way that demonstrates a failure to understand the most basic aspects of political ideologies. I’ll try to help with a brief summary of economic philosophies:
CONservative Feudalism (laissez-faire deregulation): Right wing extremism
Laissez-faire economic deregulation. Micromanage personal morals but unregulated economic anarchy.
Loves private investment and corporate administrators; despises, abuses, dominates and oppresses labor.
Does not seek equality of opportunity or outcomes; perceives equality as incompatible with liberty.
Seeks two-tiered class system where elites dominate subservient class.
Sees equality and liberty as incompatible: Exalts liberty (in name only); denounces equality.
Communism/Socialism/Marxism: Left wing extremism
Government owns and micromanages productive resources.
Loves labor; despises capital investment and business administration.
Seeks equality of OUTCOMES.
Sees equality and liberty as incompatible: Exalts equality; denounces liberty.
PROgressivism / Liberalism: Balance between the extremes
Entrepreneurial private sector of free enterprise, with infinite business decisions made within a framework of regulatory protections to prevent harming others such as workers, consumers and the common infrastructure and environment shared with others.
Scott Stantis continues to confuse PROgressive views with Marxism in a way that demonstrates a failure to understand the most basic aspects of political ideologies. I’ll try to help with a brief summary of economic philosophies:
CONservative Feudalism (laissez-faire deregulation): Right wing extremism
Laissez-faire economic deregulation. Micromanage personal morals but unregulated economic anarchy.
Loves private investment and corporate administrators; despises, abuses, dominates and oppresses labor.
Does not seek equality of opportunity or outcomes; perceives equality as incompatible with liberty.
Seeks two-tiered class system where elites dominate subservient class.
Sees equality and liberty as incompatible: Exalts liberty (in name only); denounces equality.
Communism/Socialism/Marxism: Left wing extremism
Government owns and micromanages productive resources.
Loves labor; despises capital investment and business administration.
Seeks equality of OUTCOMES.
Sees equality and liberty as incompatible: Exalts equality; denounces liberty.
PROgressivism / Liberalism: Balance between the extremes
Entrepreneurial private sector of free enterprise, with infinite business decisions made within a framework of regulatory protections to prevent harming others such as workers, consumers and the common infrastructure and environment shared with others.
(Workers + Investors + Consumers = Win – win – win
Recognizes that investment/administration and labor must work together for the common benefit of both.
Seeks equality of OPPORTUNITY (level playing field)
Sees equality of OPPORTUNITY (not outcomes) as an inextricable component of Liberty.