When did Socialist theft and torture become "progressive"?

Was I just not copied on that email? Did that label get approved without interviews of Gulag survivors, prisoners in Castro's jails, Zimbabweans starving after Mugabe stole the farmland from the evil White farmers who know how to farm, Productive Venezuelans fleeing to the U.S. and other locales on the heels of Chavez' "new socialism", survivors of Mao's Great Leap Forward and others?