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On 7/23/2012 7:09 PM, michael perelman wrote:
> I don't think that anybody described themselves at the as Progressive
> to make a left-wing identification.
Nevertheless, they did use the term to draw contrasts.
Again from Sanger:
"We are living not in a simple and complete
civilization, but in a conflict of at least two
civilizations, based on entirely different fundamental
ideas, pursuing different methods and with different
aims and ends.
I will call one of these civilizations our Traditional
or Authoritative Civilization. It rests upon the thing
that is, and upon the thing that has been. It insists
upon respect for custom and usage; it discourages
criticism and enquiry. It is very ancient and
conservative, or, going beyond conservation, it is
reactionary. ...
Contrasted with the ancient civilization, with the
Traditional disposition, which accepts institutions and
moral values as though they were a part of nature, we
have what I may call—with an evident bias in its
favour—the civilization of enquiry, of experimental
knowledge, Creative and Progressive Civilization."
Any discussion of progressivism that fails to grapple with
the contrasts intended by those who self-identified as
progressive is useless, don't you think?
Alan Isaac
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