Liberals like to pretend that they are advancing civilization. On the contrary...

Jeffrey Folks | March 28, 2026

Liberals like to pretend that they are advancing civilization, moving forward, progressing.  Hence the moniker “progressive.”  But that term raises the question of exactly what liberals wish to advance toward.

The reality is that liberals are not progressing anywhere.  They are engaged in a repression of freedom and natural impulses that is inherently and inevitably authoritarian.  As George Orwell understood so well, the end point of liberal thought is a police state, in which personal freedom is suppressed in the name of some greater good, whether that be social equity, globalism, or some form of ethnic or sex-based equality and reparations.  Liberalism is repressive at its core: It cannot allow a free discussion of its intentions, since that discussion would quickly expose how repressive it is of the very impulses that make us human: the love of freedom, of family, of nation, of local environment, and of God.

In place of these natural human impulses, liberals instill a repression that is always on guard against those who would “fall back” toward being fully human.  The Communist Manifesto is the most succinct statement of progressive principles, and it is the foundational document that underlies the thinking of every modern-day liberal, even those who may not have read it or deny any connection with it.  In their manifesto, Marx and Engels are transparent about what natural behaviors they intend to suppress and how they will do it.

The Communist Manifesto states explicitly that its authors intend to eliminate private property, the family, religion, national ties, and the capitalist means of production, all of which will be taken over by the centralized power of the State.  In Marx’s view, the entire history of human society is a matter of class struggle — in the past between the feudal class and the bourgeoisie, then at the current stage between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.  Given the “fact” that everything is a matter of class struggle, it follows that all aspects of private and social existence........

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