ABSTRACT
The Party ideology, which must permeate all intellectual activity and creation, is too precious a weapon to be wielded by anybody save a reliable one. Progressive ideology itself is emptied of significance, because it is in its nature to yield to the forms of social engineering that ultimately inspire it. The important thing, however, is the social engineers' basic commitment: they have overcome the inhibitions that dominated the intellectuals and have furnished their world with new objects and objectives. In most cases the social engineers express their ambitions in the terms of traditional human aspirations: fear, hope, hunger, security, power, happiness. The political depository of progressivism has been international socialism. Thus, the eclipse of socialism is in reality a victory for their philosophy and program: it has become obsolete in proportion to the world's becoming socialist and follows the widespread predilection for collective regulation.
