Why do modern progressives more often resemble historic fascists than that they do classic liberals (modern conservatives)?

Examples:
- big, intrusive bureaucracies
- removal of God and religious speech from the public forum
- political correctness, thought police and invention of hate crimes
- economic mixed-socialism
- public ownership of corporations (corporatism)
- policies of foreign nation-building
- media controls and censoring
- phony causes like man-made climate change and overpopulation to justify authoritarian policies
- separation of the worker class from the intelligentsia or political class

You make an excellent point: "Liberal" is derived from the same root as "liberty". True liberals, such as our founding fathers, believed in limited government to protect personal liberty.

Today’s "liberals" want to take us in the opposite direction. And they make themselves look ludicrous when they call themselves "progressives", because their anti-liberty agenda would never lead to human progress.

Libertarianism is the modern term of classical liberalism.

You know the belief in Social Liberalism and Smaller Government, individual state rights, and helping small independent businesses vs big corporations, more rights for the people to vote on issues, the gold standard etc.
basically what the republicans are paying lip service to, without all the social issues and controversy, and religious stuff. trying to fake like they believe in (they are actully brougt by the same elites and corporations and have the same agenda as the Democrats forcing communism down our throats and a NWO,

Classical liberalism is sort of split between the Republican Party and the Libertarian Party.

Isn’t classical liberalism what "conservatives" are now attempting to preserve against the left wing forces of radical change (European fascistic socialism)?

Around the end of the 60’s

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan

http://www.alltheinternet.com/texis/open/counter?sa=L&ai=ClnMmgRaZTYCGFcG4gwf07K2XDaTojPgB1MHAmyHyqPA&num=101&sig=AGiWqtwTFKXU_mUtlQAewNZQaRedBerv9Q&adurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

then the afterburners were hit in 2008 for everyone to see

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/cpusa-and-obama-platforms-are-identical

http://www.cpusa.org/health-care-the-time-for-a-united-push-is-now

http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling

http://www.cpusa.org/12-days-to-go-the-election-depends-on-you/

the Unions also became part of the movernemt

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/labor2010/index.cfm

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?cycle=2010&ind=P

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The labeling is the most significant difference, followed closely by the taxpayer funding of the growth of either.

What are some positive impacts for the workers?Responses to impacts for Capitalists and Farmers and a negative impact for Government.

Federal debt, over regulation of business and high taxation of citizens.

How does the industrial revolution apply the principles of classical liberalism?

The two really do not go ‘hand-in-hand’. The Industrial Revolution brought forth some very selfish neoconservatives of the sort Dickens criticised in many of his writings.

I am referring to the ideology, not the political party.

Freedom and size of Government.

What are the differences between classical liberalism and neo-classical liberalism?

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besides divine right and absolute monarchies

absolute monarchies, divine right