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Regressivism: To Regress: Return to a former or less developed state. Noun: The action of returning to a former or less developed state. A Political Philosophy that includes Modern Liberals, Progressives, and Social Democrats. It includes Anti-Industrialism, Environmental Activism, Social Justice, Economic Justice, Secular Humanism, Labor Unionism/Guilds
Anti-Industrialism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Left:_The_Anti-Industrial_Revolution
"The nature of an ideology is not determined by majority vote—but by logic, by analyzing its essence and its necessary implications. The logic of environmentalism, for example, leads to a society without technology . . . even if various environmentalists . . . would deny this . . . The full implications of an ideology’s central principle are often evaded by its adherents."
[Peter Schwartz (1985), "Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty," Voice of Reason.]
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_topic_environmentalism_and_animal_rights
Environmental Activism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism
Regressives advocate a return to a natural state of the ecology with equal weight being given human activity and pristine fauna and flora.
"[O]bserve that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for "harmony with nature"—there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears. . . .
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs. Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The ecologists are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire."
[Ayn Rand (1971), "The Anti-Industrial Revolution," Return of the Primitive, 277.]
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_topic_environmentalism_and_animal_rights
Social Justice:
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating an egalitarian society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being.Education and Social Justice By J. Zajda, S. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
Economic Justice:
Economic justice is based on the concepts of human rights and equality and involves a greater degree of economic egalitarianism through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or even property redistribution….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
Secular Humanism:
http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III
"Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity."
Atheism and, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_need
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program."