Transnational progressivism

Transnational progressivism is a Neologism coined by Hudson Institute Fellow John Fonte in 2001 to identify a supposed ideology that endorses a concept of postnational global citizenship and promotes the authority of international institutions over the sovereignty of individual nation-states.[1][2][3]. Like the similar notion of Cultural Marxism, it is part of a conservative critique that groups together people and organizations who do not use the term themselves and do not generally consider themselves to share a single ideology or necessarily to belong to the same movement.

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Overview

Fonte argued that the core beliefs of this view include:

  • Advocating the goals of an identity group rather than individual: "The key political unit is not the individual citizen...but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born."[1][2][3]
  • An oppressor/victim dichotomy: "Transnational ideologists have incorporated the essentially Hegelian Marxist "privileged vs. marginalized" dichotomy," with "immigrant groups designated as victims."[1][2][3]
  • Proportional representation by group: "Transnational progressivism assumes that "victim" groups should be represented in all professions roughly proportionate to their percentage of the population. If not, there is a problem of "underrepresentation."[1][2][3]
  • Change in institutional values: "the distinct worldviews of ethnic, gender, and linguistic minorities must be represented" within dominant social and political institutions.[2][3]
  • Change in the assimilation paradigm: "The traditional paradigm based on the assimilation of immigrants into an existing American civic culture is obsolete and must be changed to a framework that promotes "diversity," defined as group proportionalism."[1][2][3]
  • Redefinition of democracy: "Changing the system of majority rule among equal citizens to one of power sharing among ethnic groups composed of both citizens and non-citizens."[1][2][3]
  • Deconstruction of Western national narratives and national symbols in favor of post-modern multiculturalist views.[2]

Transnational progressivism in fiction

In John Ringo's military science fiction series Legacy of the Aldenata, the Aldenata are described disparagingly as "galactic tranzis".

Tom Kratman references tranzi in "Caliphate", a near future science fiction novel. In the afterword, which is not fiction, he describes how the tranzi's policy of appeasement and inertia cause the subjection of Europe to Islamic control.

See also

References
  1. John Fonte, "The Ideological War Within the West," Watch on the West, Volume 3, Number 6, May 2002
  2. John Fonte, "Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism: The Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West," Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Orbis, Summer 2002
  3. John Fonte, "Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation-State," Front Page Magazine, June 04, 2008
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