A while ago on Jared's Headspace, Average Joe asked, "when did liberals start referring to themselves as 'progressives'? You couldn't find more gratuitous self- pleasuring if you handed out jars of Vaseline in prison." I was a little surprised by this remark since I learned about the Progressive movement in high school history, but I tried to I tried to outline its emergence during the height of the Industrial Revolution in the US.
But the text of this Bill Moyers speech does the job of explaining the history of the Progressive movement and more. It offers reasons why the principles of Progressivism are even more relevant today in the face increasing corporate control of daily life and unabashed power plays by the wealthy and callous.
bring on the Vaseline! i think "progressive" should be embraced by liberals everywhere -- not only is it rooted in history but it hasn't yet been turned into a pejorative term like the conservatives managed to do with "liberal."
Posted by: clare at June 19, 2003 08:39 PMThanks for posting this item. It's a good one. And did you know Moyers is actually an Okie? May have been raised in Texas, but was born in the land where the june bugs zoom.
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