The Progressive Movement and the American Left

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Timeless Appeal: May 28, 2006

I think a key component of Progressivism is defined as Democratization of multiple spheres of society without dismantling hierarchal structures.

Empowering unions to form and negotiate with bosses is a Progressive idea. Abolishing bosses altogether and have the workers control the means of production is a Leftist idea.

But I think that's also incomplete because there are other things like Secular Humanism that isn't mutually exclusive to wanting to get rid of forced arbitration, but regardless tends to be associated with modern Progressivism.

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Timeless Appeal: May 28, 2006

Sucrose posted:

The status quo is our starting point.

Ya know there a lot of models for leadership in change even in Capitalistic/Corporate frameworks that entirely disagree with this. Like yes, obviously you have to acknowledge current reality to create reforms, but vision has to be your starting point. You have to know why you're doing something and what it's building towards. You can't even make compromises unless you don't know what you're compromising.

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