Progress (n.) is that which, under capitalism, has done nothing but endow material forces with intellectual life and degrade human life into a material force.
Progress (n.) step by step proves nothing: I can go step by step and arrive at the very point from which I set out.
Progress (n.) finds its enemies outside the mass in the mass's own products of self-debasement, grown independent, so that fighting them is like man turning against God and thereby against his own religiosity.
Progress (n.) is an empty category: to save it despite constant retrogressions and circles, one must invent a personal adversary to blame.
Progress (n.) has so far been the Spirit's progress against the mass of mankind, driving it into an ever more dehumanized condition.
Progress (n.) is bought, in the epoch before society is consciously rebuilt, only through the most tremendous waste of individual development.