Progressives (Liberals)

Progressivism (from lat. progressio, onis, f.: progress) describes a political philosophy based on the fundamental idea of progress in the fields of ... economic development and organization; it is thus the counter-philosophy to conservatism.

The first communist party in the sense of a nationally organised party political organisation was the Bolsheviks under Lenin's leadership in 1918.

Marx's best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, and the three-volume Das Kapital. His political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.

Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university.... His father, as a child known as Herschel, was the first in the line to receive a secular education. He became a lawyer with a comfortably Upper middle class income; in addition to his income as an attorney, the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards.

Prior to his son's birth, and after the abrogation of Jewish emancipation in the Rhineland, Herschel [Karl's Pappy] abandoned Judaism taking on the German forename Heinrich over the Yiddish Herschel.

Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

Karl Marx wrote:

Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

A Kraut from an upper middle class family, eh?

Figures, sho nuff.

Like all commies, he probably hated his father.

In October 1835 at the age of 17, Marx travelled to the University of Bonn wishing to study philosophy and literature, but his father insisted on law as a more practical field

“The first part of a phone bank conversation now is no longer ‘Who are you supporting?’ It’s ‘How are you doing?’ ” Návar said. “We have an initial check-in. We’ve totally changed the script.”

At most organizing events, he and his colleagues share the screen with a slide show presentation that outlines the key aspects of Sanders’s vision for a coronavirus response plan, which include monthly payments to everyone, 100 percent unemployment insurance for income up to $75,000, free coronavirus health care and testing, and support for small businesses — among others.

Volunteers are encouraged to share those ideas with people they talk to on the phone. The hope is that if someone in need can relate to something Sanders is advocating, they will relate to his broader platform, too.

...monthly payments to everyone, 100 percent unemployment insurance for income up to $75,000...

"Practical?" Marx didn't care about that. No commie does. They're interested in pie-in-the-sky philosophy/ideology, that's all.

I bet he never forgave his "real jew" father for trying to force him to be practical.

Do you have more ideas than your one-sentence summary? (Hegel, Plato - pie-in-the-sky philosophy/ideology???)

Well, it's decades ago that I had to do it in philosophy at grammar school, so I only remember that there was a Hegelian and therefore Platonic influence.
And I just [barely] passed the philosophy exam.

Did you read his PhD-thesis? (Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie ["The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature."]