- a Manifesto for PaleoProgressives -

[Iolchan]

a Manifesto for Paleo-Progressives

How does one define 'Paleo - Progressive'?


- Paleo-Progressives are a substantial, although unsung, unrepresented,
unorganized, and hitherto undeclared and scattered flock of politically aware
liberals and radicals within the American body politic, throughout history,
even until Now.

* It is an old, and pronounced tendency within what was formerly known
as the Progressive Movement before the New Left came on the scene in 1962.

* Paleo-Progressivism was a potent tendency within the pre-Marxist, and non-
Marxist-Leninist wing of what academics generally call the Old Left. It existed
as a tendency long before the term "Progressive" was co-opted by the Bull Moose
Party of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

Later, when the term Progressive was co-opted by the Stalinists
and fellow-travelers in the 1920s and 1930s, Paleo-Progressivism
was the camp of those, who out of love for Freedom and Democracy,
were "pre-mature anti-Stalinists." - [my phrase]

Paleo-Progressivism has deep roots in American history. Paleo-Progressives
remember Jefferson's hope and vision of America as a peaceful, insular, happy,
enlightened, prosperous, and educated nation of free-holders living in villages,
towns and cities; of a cultivated continent of orchards, fields, and farms,
of yeomen farm-families dwelling safely, at peace with the world and shining
a beacon of freedom and hope to the rest of mankind.

Paleo-Progressives are for clean, efficient, ship-shape government. They are
against graft and corruption on all levels. They are not ashamed to be called
"petty-bourgeois Reformists" by Marxist-Leninists. Paleo-Progressives are
Jeffersonian democrats with a small d.

As such, they are against Militarism, and American Imperialism abroad,
since Jefferson declared his enmity towards standing armies.

In the present, Paleo-progressives want to end the war in Iraq, and passionately
oppose the insane drive of the BushLeague and the Neo-cons to open a second Front
in the War On [of] Terror, by nuking Iran.
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