What you people never get is that it's all the same. The labels don't really matter because it never worked to advance any society, it just retarded their growth and prosperity to various extents. Progressive, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Democratic Socialist, are all different forms of political cancer. Does it matter if you die of lung cancer, skin cancer, stomach cancer, brain cancer or colon cancer? No, in the end you are taken by cancer, and the very same holds true for leftist politics with less freedom, less innovation, less motivation and less for everyone, except the elites who always manage to make Orwell's Animal Farm come to life.