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BainsBane

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23. Your history is inaccurate, but I agree about current progressives.

Mon Apr 24, 2017, 09:23 PM

Apr 2017

The Progressive movement was a middle-class urban reform movement that arose in response to immigration and turn-of-the-century urban conditions. It included Jane Adams and the Settlement House movement, reforms of city political machines like Tammany Hall, and prohibition. Southern progressivism was highly racist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era

Union leaders at that time were anarcho-syndicalists, not progressives. After the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the USSR, communists dominated union leadership. They were systematically arrested, deported and imprisoned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids

I think you are right, however, about those who call themselves progressives now. They have indeed been trickling back from other internet sites.

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The author makes the point that BainsBane Apr 2017 #10

Anyone that's anti-choice isn't a progressive. tammywammy Apr 2017 #12

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I say this with all respect... GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #20

You say respect but followed up with an assumption that I'm uneducated. tammywammy Apr 2017 #22

Geez GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #25

Your history is inaccurate, but I agree about current progressives. BainsBane Apr 2017 #23

You obviously are more educated on the issue that I am. GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #26

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Additionally, LBJ didn't divide the left BainsBane Apr 2017 #27

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Are you fucking serious? BainsBane Apr 2017 #35

Isn't being against Wall Street part of the current standard? NobodyHere Apr 2017 #39

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