Socialists discovered that corporations have too much power and proposed merging your employer, landlord and grocery store into one institution with a police force and military.
It’s important to understand why progressives are dangerous. It isn’t their policies, those can be tried, judged, and either continued or abandoned. It is the genuine love of centralized power and the belief that the “right” people (them) should wield it. The result is always treatment of dissent as moral corruption rather than disagreement.