Modern discerning historians such as Murray N. Rothbard and Thomas C. Leonard have traced the nefarious roots of anti-capitalism and hostility to the market by present day race-obsessed progressives to their ancestral intellectual theoreticians in the academy, journalism, social work, law, and politics. These earlier progressives were unapologetically disdainful of laissez-faire capitalism, which they actively sought to replace with managed corporatism presided over by an elitist governing class of a regulatory welfare-warfare state. But there are two notorious figures which are not frequently mentioned in this dark history, that of the anti-capitalist, pro-slavery racists Thomas Carlyle and George Fitzhugh. Both had … Continue reading Progressivism’s Unmentioned Ancestors