<html><body> <DIV>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</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: info@pulpculture.org <BR><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Does anyone know about the history of the use of "Progressive" as a <BR>> political label? I always thought it was a word people used because they <BR>> wanted to dissociate themselves from reds to indicate that they disavowed <BR>> revolutionary social change and were in favor of slow, progressive social <BR>> change. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Bitch | Lab <BR>> http://blog.pulpculture.org <BR>> <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>