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progressivism

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    From progressive + -ism.

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    progressivism (usually uncountable, plural progressivisms)

    1. A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.
      • 1976 July 2, John Rockwell, “The Pop Life”, in The New York Times[1]:
        In New York the range of influences is as diverse as anywhere else, even if there unquestionably is a tendency toward Velvet Undergroundish punk rock and British progressivisms.
      • 2017 April 7, Matthew Penza, “The Problem with the Big Tent”, in The Princeton Tory[2]:
        By adopting big-tentism, conservatism has been allowed to degenerate into pseudo-conservatism, an ideology essentially the same as contemporary progressivism: embracing of every ideology and policy position whose inclusion is politically expedient.
      • 2023 November 16, Pamela Paul, “Progressives Aren’t Liberal”, in The New York Times[3]:
        Some aspects of contemporary progressivism look less like actual progress and more like a step in reverse.

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