At the heart of progressivism's popularity is its ideologically driven theme that income inequality is an evil in a free society.
The 20th Century's most memorable government leaders rose to power attacking income inequality in one form or another. Lenin attacked the old regime led by the czars. Lenin specifically overthrew its replacement government led by social democrat Alexander Kerensky because Kerensky's socialist party tolerated income inequality. Stalin followed with his persecution of the kulaks, who were the relatively more successful, mostly Ukrainian, farmers. Lenin had set the stage for Stalin's purges by labeling kulaks as; "bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine."
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