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Being anti-communist or anti-socialist does not then mean that progressives are good people, at least not in the context of their belief that government should control every aspect of your life. Of which all progressives did or do believe. The Bull Moose platform as well as the Second Bill of Rights are declarations of total government control.
Being anti-communist or anti-socialist does not then mean that progressives are good people, at least not in the context of their belief that government should control every aspect of your life. Of which all progressives did or do believe. The Bull Moose platform as well as the Second Bill of Rights are declarations of total government control.
==Name Change==
The section regarding when progressives re-named themselves into liberals contains a small section of an FDR speech:
"Yes, the people of this country want a genuine choice this year, not a choice between two names for the same reactionary doctrine. Ours must be a party of liberal thought, of planned action, of enlightened international outlook, and of the greatest good to the greatest number of our citizens"
Liberalism never stood for "planned action"/central planning.
Liberalism never stood for the utilitarian doctrine of the "the greatest good to the greatest number".
Liberals did not use the word "reactionary"; radicals use this word to juxtapose themselves as progressives against reactionaries.
Finally, there is even some question as to an "enlightened international outlook".
The main reason for this speech was for FDR to accept the nomination. But beyond that, the secondary main reason for this speech was to rename the ideology.