Progressivism
Current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science, and collective action to transform institutions and overcome inequalities.
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Current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science, and collective action to transform institutions and overcome inequalities.
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I want a multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science.
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Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify who can choose, replace and hold political decision-makers accountable. A social or economic objective does not by itself establish elections, popular sovereignty or an unelected ruling elite.

Our Progressivism definition includes “current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science”. Limits on authority and protected rights support a liberty reading, although legal order and defense remain possible.

Our Progressivism definition includes “multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science”. The statement distinguishes membership and exclusion; rejecting the community's own assimilation is different from requiring minorities to assimilate.

Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify the political role of organized armed force and acceptance of war. Domestic coercion, economic state intervention and national pride do not by themselves establish militarism or pacifism.

Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify coercive foreign projection into other peoples or states. This axis concerns foreign intervention, not nationalism, domestic regulation, cultural confidence or military preparedness alone.

Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify ownership of productive assets, land and enterprises. Welfare spending, moral solidarity and expert administration do not by themselves abolish or privatize productive ownership.

Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify how production and allocation are coordinated through plans or decentralized exchange. Public ownership can coexist with markets, and private firms can operate under directed planning.


Our Progressivism model centers on multicultural society in constant reform, expanding rights and using the state to overcome inequality through science. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.

Our Progressivism definition includes “current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science”. Reason, rights or criticism of religion offers context for public justification, but does not alone settle the institutional relation between religion and governance.

Our Progressivism definition includes “current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science”. The stated changes to rights, gender or customs concern progressive public morality, rather than only economic redistribution.

Our Progressivism definition includes “current that advocates social reforms and the expansion of rights to promote equality and justice, trusting progress, science”. Technology, industrial transformation or scientific organization is part of the stated project, while its ethical and ecological limits remain separate questions.

Leans further toward progressive than 90% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.


On Structure, it sits close to the catalog median.
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