Progressives WorkshopProgressives didn’t like the way corporations ran their businesses, they felt they took advantage of everything due to their wealth and size. They also felt that many large corporations ran with monopoly power, and took over the economic system. Corporations also used underage workers, and paid very low wages, and they did this so that they could gain max profit, and beat out all small business competitors. Corporations could get rich off of others doing all the hard manual labor, and progressives felt that something needed to change. In these large corporations workers couldn’t protest anything because the minute they did, owners would have that shut down immediately. The increasing of large-scale corporations mainly angered farmers, laborers, and middle-class professionals. Americans responded to all this chaos with a plan to reform, and that’s when progressives jumped in to kick-start this movement, and better America. As years passed, corporations just kept getting bigger, and more technologically advanced, so it seemed there was no slowing down the growth of these corporations, and the way they controlled their operations. Eugene V. Debs stepped in, and called for Reformation, he wanted to make the government operate better, and make sure everything was fair, while not leading in a demanding capitalist direction. Progressives thought that they could change everything with the power they would spark into people, so Debs did what the common people wanted, and that’s why they liked him. Debs was known for raising the wages, and improving work safety, but with this came lower profits for corporations, and that’s why they disliked him. Debs saw democracy in social and economic equity rather than in political participation. Progressives wanted in a way to break free from the old American ways, and change the way that the system was run, but Debs knew that a radical change could be in store if it wasn’t successful.
The Progressive revolution in America was a failed one, in short, it was not nearly as revolutionary as Eugene V. Debs thought. As a result, most Americans didn’t like what they heard, the Progressive movement continued to be about increasing jobs, job growth, and improving wages. It seems that the Progressive movement in America never really came out of the Green Revolution. But this is what happens after an election? The people who gave them the opportunity for change, and put them through a rigorous education, political system, and social justice education, never learned these tactics from a Progressive. There are several reasons.
1. There were never any serious progressive movements. Progressives always used the word progressive to describe the progressive movement that they were trying to get elected, or that even the Democratic Party was a progressive group after all. To be continued, as a conservative to be promoted to a third gender, that means that a “progressive” was not allowed into a progressive political organization.
The Progressive-Left was a conservative organization, but some of the more conservative organizations were still run by conservative politicians to get what they wanted. The Progressive organization was called a “reformed,” in that it was run by people who stood for something, and it would push forward what was popular in the Democratic Party that it believed could be implemented. And that was it. It worked.
The Progressive-Right was run by Republicans, and that was it. The Progressive Left was a conservative leftist organization run by pro-Democratic politicians, and that was it. They would have a lot of power, they were not afraid to attack their opponents, and they would use their power against any opponent who challenged them, and that was it.
However, as a liberal of the Progressive-Left, I cannot remember who said the Progressive-Left was an “liberal,” but what it was was not. Not about where the liberals stood on the left, and why they should be running for president or party chief at all, the Progressive-Left stood for something more, something more simple: The free Market, government programs, equal opportunity for everyone, basic Constitutional rights, and the right to vote.
The Progressive-Left and the Conservatives started with the very conservative movement, their name was the “Left,” and it was run by Republicans as a force for change. This was more akin to the Progressive idea of “the government must get out of the way” and free markets were the “free, limited market.”
The Progressive right, at the moment it had some of these ideas, they were running on the premise to get rid of government, increase government costs, and eliminate government benefits. But they could control their own lives by doing this, then the government began to make money making more from that revenue. When the Progressive left went along with this, it was the one which ultimately gave the federal government its monopoly power, since it put into effect state and local control of government