[lbo-talk] History of the label Progressive

[Steven L. Robinson]

Wasn't the term originally used in the first decade of the twentieth century to describe the liberal wing of the Republican Party [Teddy Roosevelt, the Lafolletes, Hiram Johnson etc]?  "Progressive" was the name given to the left wing third party which ran Henry Wallace {Former Republican and Secretary of Agriculture under FDR] for President against Truman in 1948.  In the decades after that election I would certainly agree that the usage below was the dominant one - particularly among the CPUSA oriented milieu. Nowadays it seems to basically mean what the term "liberal" used to mean. SR

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: info at pulpculture.org 


> 
> 
> Does anyone know about the history of the use of "Progressive" as a 
> political label? I always thought it was a word people used because they 
> wanted to dissociate themselves from reds to indicate that they disavowed 
> revolutionary social change and were in favor of slow, progressive social 
> change. 
> 
> 
> 
> Bitch | Lab 
> http://blog.pulpculture.org 
> 
> ___________________________________ 
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <../attachments/20060508/63713b16/attachment.htm>