Progressism

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Progressism, also known as technocratic progressivism, techno-atheism and pejoratively as left-hirdism, is a radical socio-political movement and ideology advocating for the acceleration of social and technological development through the suppression or outright elimination of institutions deemed "regressive" and the consolidation of political power amongst the intelligentsia. The ideology emerged in Suvania during the 20th Century, as a romanticization of the appointment of a technocratic directorate in the country during the late 18th Century. While originally focusing on social progress through republicanism and anti-clericalism, the ideology soon emerged as a distinct entity advocating for with the eventual goal of creating a techno-utopian society ruled on positivist, technocratic principles and free from "regressive elements".

While commonly regarded as an extreme form of social progressivism, progressism contrasts heavily with the liberal ideas underpinning modern progressive organizations, opposing the liberal protection of religion and the promotion of individualism as a underpinning of the self-interest found within economic liberalism. While there are a number of schools of thought within the movement on the place of democracy in a progressist society, the ideology has often been seen as opposing liberal democratic frameworks as inherently producing systems which stall progress and prioritize populist narratives over objectivity in policymaking.

In contemporary politics, progressism is often divided between relatively moderate and radical elements - with a division having formed amongst adherents to the model of reformist, democratic means of encouraging radical progress and the advocacy of benevolent dictatorship and militant atheism spearheaded by the Army of Progress - dubbed Neo-progressism.