I don't want to make a special ideology of terms like "progress" and "progressive". I simply use them to refer to that broad spectrum of political entities and ideas that embrace both the bona fide liberal, including religious, secular, revolutionary nationalist, various and sundry socialisms, communisms and anarchisms. I think of all these groups and individuals as having some sort of liberation framework, like anarchism, just for example. Just, for example, it seemed to me that the BPP had a progressive or leftist period, or I could say a liberation struggle building and affirming period.
Of course the idea that things can be better in society is at least belief in the possibility of some
sort of social progress. The fact that the bourgeoisie has taken the hope of progress for all and twisted it into the idea that progress should be for the few, whether that few be the entire
population of the Imperial Republic proper or the sainted economic and political elite within that Republic, is merely a testimony to how their ideas do tend to push out or in this case misdefine progressive ideas.
I leave it to each liberation framework to shed light upon what progress or should I say, progressive progress actually is and especially how we can achieve it.
I certainly like the idea that we see a development of understanding and practice over time
and so we understand progress also in the sense that things are developmental. We need to crawl before we can walk.
I don't mean by progress a naive belief in unlimited production as being a good thing or the idea that technology will solve our social problems in and of itself. I also don't mean using the term progress or progressive in a way that promotes empire or neglects to deal with the reality of empire when considering the role of the domestic population of the "one and only" imperial superpower. I don't think of the prohibition of liquor in the early twentieth century as progressive although I think that women getting the vote was progressive. Of course a woman or black imperial leader in the White House isn't progressive either.
It seems like anarcho-feminism would be progressive since there are problems of patriarchy everywhere.
For me, at least, the word "progressive" is not meant to be a precise term but more of a
grab-bag of liberal to revolutionary leftist ideas and entities.
Of course the idea that things can be better in society is at least belief in the possibility of some
sort of social progress. The fact that the bourgeoisie has taken the hope of progress for all and twisted it into the idea that progress should be for the few, whether that few be the entire
population of the Imperial Republic proper or the sainted economic and political elite within that Republic, is merely a testimony to how their ideas do tend to push out or in this case misdefine progressive ideas.
I leave it to each liberation framework to shed light upon what progress or should I say, progressive progress actually is and especially how we can achieve it.
I certainly like the idea that we see a development of understanding and practice over time
and so we understand progress also in the sense that things are developmental. We need to crawl before we can walk.
I don't mean by progress a naive belief in unlimited production as being a good thing or the idea that technology will solve our social problems in and of itself. I also don't mean using the term progress or progressive in a way that promotes empire or neglects to deal with the reality of empire when considering the role of the domestic population of the "one and only" imperial superpower. I don't think of the prohibition of liquor in the early twentieth century as progressive although I think that women getting the vote was progressive. Of course a woman or black imperial leader in the White House isn't progressive either.
It seems like anarcho-feminism would be progressive since there are problems of patriarchy everywhere.
For me, at least, the word "progressive" is not meant to be a precise term but more of a
grab-bag of liberal to revolutionary leftist ideas and entities.
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