For me, socialism and progressivism are opposite ideals.
Socialism is strictly about ethical economics, whereas progressivism is broader, it’s non-white, non-Christian and female egalitarianism at best and non-white, non-Christian and female supremacism at worst, about globalism and gun control (political supremacism), carbon taxes, which’re essentially life taxes, compulsory education and vaccination, transhumanism and transnaturalism (scientific supremacism).
Socialism is compatible with populism (which’s what I am, I could summarize all my sociopolitical, economic and even epistemic thinking as populism, and sustainability), because it’s about emancipating the working/middle classes, the majority of citizens, whereas progressivism, like elitism, is about empowering minorities, and foreigners, but unlike elitism these minorities, and foreigners are (perceived to be) marginalized rather than elevated.
Progressivism and elitism are two sides of the anti-populist coin, whereas socialism and conservatism on the one hand (authoritarian populism), and capitalism (not to be conflated with corporatism) and libertarianism on the other (free populism), are two sides of the populist coin.
In fact progressivism has been elitism in practice, and while theoretically it could be used to help women, minorities and foreigners, often it’s used just to further subjugate both them and the majority by the elite.
Elitists co-opted socialism at the turn of the 20th century and progressives at the turn of the 21st, but it’s time for conservatives, libertarians and nationalists to take it back.
Conservative values and norms are the values and norms of the majority of citizens, not the values and norms of elites, minorities or foreigners.
There are a lot of sides to modernity, anything that isn’t preindustrial and the ways of organizing society that went with it is modern.
Right, while I’m not saying luck definitely had nothing to do with it, in all likelihood whites thrived at least in part because our biology and culture better enabled us to.
For me, socialism is just as, if not more compatible with nationalism, but progressives and the new elites are in favor of globalism.
Right, socialists, and capitalists aren’t necessarily ethical, some of them are opportunists (I’m socialist as long as I’m poor, I’m capitalist as long as I’m rich), but you could say that about any ethic, ideology or religion, many devotees are just using them.
However, you can admit you’re an opportunist and still sort of be a socialist or capitalist I think, whereas you can’t be a Christian or Muslim and admit you’re an opportunist.
Socialists and capitalists can be ethical or unethical.