What is progress?

Progress is change of simple into complex, change of lower to higher.

Regress is the opposite.

Regress in society is called reaction.

Why capitalism is reactionary social order now? Because it does not allow necessary rise in complexity, rise that is required to move in to thermo nuclear era, era of better medicine and longer life. Instead it constantly slides in state that I call unmanageable complexity, replacing progress by presentations and fakes. It is like dumb student in school who is stuck in certain grade and can't move to next level, fails and fails.

Not only this, but as progress in means of production pushes capitalism forward it respond is very strange (to normal people) ways. Start to tear hairs looking at robots progress. Very warned that millions of people won't be dumb addition to trucks.

Capitalism is just afraid of his fate that he perfectly knows. Trumps of the world are response to progress, response by reaction. In their attempt to avoid the unavoidable fate.

They are so scared, so few of them left, that at least they hope to bring with them to another world hundreds of millions of people. It is something like barbarian leaders who had been buried with hundreds of killed servants. And they can even pull it off, if you let them.