[lbo-talk] History of the label Progressive

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Tue May 9 04:16:45 PDT 2006


I'm pretty sure that Richard Hofstadter's book The Age of Reform does a good job of this. At least I thought so!

Cheers, J T.

On 5/8/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>
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> info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> I suspect the history would be a mess -- a mere list.
>
> I often used the term (and still do some times) to indicate liberals
> who will work with reds!
>
> Carrol
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