Anatomy of the Progressive Revolution

A cultural infrastructure of shared morality is necessary for the success of market eco-nomics. Traditional views maintain that religion is the nurturing source of the morality, which grows in the culture. The Progressive revolution aims to overturn Traditional morality and impose its social justice morality on culture. This article dissects and cri-tiques the multifaceted Progressive revolution in the United States, while contrasting it with the Traditional view. It argues that the ultimate aim of the Progressive revolution is to redefine the human person through identity politics as a collective entity, which es-sentially liquidates the individual, conforms the person to social justice morality, and establishes socialistic economics.