MORE ABOUT MY USE OF THE TERM "PROGRESSIVE"

If a chain is being broken, an oppressive relationship being resisted or overthrown then it seems like something progressive is probably happening.

Then there is the matter of direction, are things moving in the direction of abolishing oppressive social relations, oppressive relations of production, oppressive sexual relations or sex roles, oppressive racial relations and so on and so forth? If any of these oppressions are being reduced or moved towards oblivion I would tend to regard it as progressive unless, of course, it is somehow pitted against other liberation struggles.