progressivism

plural progressivisms

1. uncountableusuallyA political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.

   Some aspects of contemporary progressivism look less like actual progress and more like a step in reverse.

   2023 November 16, Pamela Paul, “Progressives Aren’t Liberal”, in The New York Times

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   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.

   1976 February 7, John Rockwell, “The Pop Life”, in The New York Times

   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.

   2017 July 4, Matthew Penza, “The Problem with the Big Tent”, in The Princeton Tory