I guess we know whose side he’s on. 😕

“‘The century of progressivism,’ Thomas claims, ‘did not go well.’ For whom? By the mid-twentieth century, progressive reforms (and, later, the New Deal laws that built upon them) helped Americans reach higher standards of living than they could have imagined. …

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#Politics #USPolitics #DeclarationOfIndependance #Progressivism #ProgressivePolitics #History #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #CivilRights #NewDeal

https://newrepublic.com/article/209183/clarence-thomas-history-progressivism-speech

Europeans understand "liberalism" better than do Americans. It's the one word in American English whose misuse vexes me more than any other political lexeme. Like the Europeans, I view the "liber" part as meaning "free to work and live one's life without government interference, except to defend those freedoms". All the public-good "liberals" would do well to start calling themselves what they are: progressives.

#liberalism #classicalLiberalism #modernLiberalism #progressivism #socialLiberalism

As a progressive liberal that used to be libtarted.

By which i mean socially progressive but largely unaware of the wider systems which perpetuated systemic inequality.

There is a lot to learn within progressivism from the dialectic between the communal necessity of communist theory and the just individualistic focus of anarchist theory.

#Progressivism #SocialTheory

Help foster good anti-SLAPP laws in #Germany by signing this petition.

#environment #progressivism
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1313/intimidation-threats-lawsuits-we-need-a-law-with-teeth-to-stop-legal-bullies

What is the moral difference between the oil industry and companies pushing generative-AI?

Both industries are using neoliberalism to make profits at the expense of negative externalities which they push on society.

Liberals need to realiase that “Capitalism” itself incentives extraction.

Whether that be directly in the case of imperialism, or indirectly in the case of appropriation of social goods that economic models fail to cost.

#Socialism #Progressivism