I'm pretty sure that Richard Hofstadter's book <span style="font-style: italic;">The Age of Reform</span> does a good job of this. At least I thought so!<br><br>Cheers,<br>J T.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carrol Cox</b> <<a href="mailto:cbcox@ilstu.edu">cbcox@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><a href="mailto:info@pulpculture.org">info@pulpculture.org</a> wrote:<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>I suspect the history would be a mess -- a mere list.
<br><br>I often used the term (and still do some times) to indicate liberals<br>who will work with reds!<br><br>Carrol<br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">
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