what is progressivism???
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Progressivism is any school of thought that advocates moderate or radical change to political institutions and policies.  In other words, it's a synonym for one of the various meanings of the word "liberal."\n\nDon't plagiarize this for your paper!
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Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. However, there are also many Liberal Parties which subscribe to classical liberalism and therefore support a mostly unregulated free market, or who are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
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I answer proudly to both the liberal and progressive labels. To me the defining goals of liberal politics are (in order of importance):\n-- Equality\n-- Fairness\n-- Freedom
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Idealism is when a certain goal/aim  is set and this is attempted to be achieved.   In a classroom setting, the idea that the teacher is the ceder of learning is beyond question , and that everything should revolve around him.   Activities are based on a clear cut goal without deviation, giving very little  chances of  being creative; that everything should be based on a 'sound" moral principle.  On the other hand, pragmatism means that the center of learning is the student and the teacher is only a facilitator.  The student solves the "problem" and adjusts to the environment and according to his needs and the society in which he  exists in.
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Libertarianism is a philosophy based on the principle that individuals should be allowed complete freedom of action as long as they do not infringe on the same freedom of others. This is usually taken by libertarians to mean that no one may initiate coercion, which they define as the use of physical force, the potential use (threat) of such, or the use of fraud to prevent individuals from having wilful use of their person or property.
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After much surfing I found it.  In part: A communitarian perspective recognizes both individual human dignity and the social dimension of human existence. Neither human existence nor individual liberty can be sustained for long outside the interdependent and overlapping communities to which all of us belong.\n\n The rest is at the link below:
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Liberalism incarnate.\n\n-Aztec276
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how can you oversimplify everyone into "liberal" and "conservative" labels? At this point, those words have no meaning, because they could mean absolutely anything.\n\nFor example, liberal can mean socialist, or it could mean capitalist, and conservative could mean noninterventionist, or it could mean interventionist. Since these are directly opposed, the words have no objective meaning.\n\nThrow away the labels and use some logic.
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Liberal meaning?  Huh?\n\nThere is no "political" meaning to those terms in education.\n\nWhat are you asking for?\n\nAutonomy is a huge "hidden" curriculum goal in education... we want kids to learn how to make decisions and be motivated to learn independently.\n\nRationality is another "hidden" curriculum goal in education... being able to think using the reality perceived by the senses and logical sequential reasoning.
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There is a platform on gp.com.  In addition, they offer "10 key values."  They are: grassroots democracy, social justice, ecological concerns, non-violence, decentralization, economic justice, gender equality, respect for diversity, personal responsibility, and future focus and sustainability.\nAlso, on their website, they go issue by issue and state where they stand.
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Ok, here is my "case"\n\nLiberalism is an ideology, philosophy, and political tradition that holds liberty as the primary political value.[1] Broadly speaking, liberalism seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of minorities are guaranteed. In modern society, liberals favour a liberal democracy with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law and an equal opportunity to succeed[2]. Liberalism rejected many foundational assumptions which dominated most earlier theories of government, such as the Divine Right of Kings, hereditary status, and established religion. Fundamental human rights that all liberals support include the right to life, liberty, and property. In many countries, "modern" liberalism differs from classical liberalism by asserting that government provision of some minimal level of material well-being takes priority over freedom from taxation. Liberalism has its roots in the Western Enlightenment, but the term now encompasses a diversity of political thought, with adherents spanning a large part of the political spectrum, from left to right. In the context of economics, the term "liberalism" refers to economic liberalism, which is associated with the political ideology of liberalism itself. \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The democratic peace theory or simply democratic peace (often DPT and sometimes democratic pacifism) is a theory in political science and philosophy which holds that democracies—specifically, liberal democracies—never or almost never go to war with one another. A more general version is that all kinds of systematic violence is rare in and by democracies. Despite criticism, it has grown in prominence among political scientists and has become influential in the policy world.
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com·mu·nism    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kmy-nzm)\nn. \nA theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. \nCommunism\nA system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. \nThe Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.
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Liberals don't respect the law of unintended consequences.  they are slow to see a dicator coming.  They adore creating classes of citizenship.  They flunk.\n\nConservatives, now, are a party that insists on using government to achieve RELIGIOUS goals.  They are the religious party.  They flunk.\n\nSo I'm a hard-currency, limited-government federalist and anti-utopian.  When Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were alive, this was called "conservatism."  In the 19th century, it was called "liberalism" and some people still call it "classical liberalism."  Nowadays, some are calling it being a "militant moderate."  At the root, it is "Lockean empiricism."
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Jesus was most definitely a radical. The message he was spreading in many ways attacked the very fabric of society at the time.\n\nAs for being a liberal, well there is nothing wrong with that at all. For some reason it has become a term of abuse in the US while very few people understand what they are attacking.\n\nThe dictionary comes up with - \n\n\nAdjective\n\n1) a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism. d. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. \n\n2) a. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor. b. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes. \n\nNot strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation. \n\nOf, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education. \n\n3) a. Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman. b. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious. \n\nNow personally most of the characteristics in the first definition seem pretty good.\n\nI particularly like the idea that if you are not a liberal you are a bigot, dogmatic and closed to ideas of progress.
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Have you ever looked up the word liberal?\n\nAdjective\n\na. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism. d. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. \n\na. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor. b. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes. \n\nNot strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation. \n\nOf, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education. \n\na. Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman. b. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious. \n\nnoun. \n\n\nA person with liberal ideas or opinions. \n\nLiberal A member of a Liberal political party. \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[Middle English, generous, from Old French, from Latin lberlis, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]\n\nThis doesn't seem like the definition of people hell bent on destruction does it?\n\nLibers are in fact looking for ways to move America forward, to bring new ideas to peoples conciousness and to tackle problems at the core rather than putting forward knee jerk solutions to attack the symptoms.\n\nNote that liberals are free from bigotry and not guided by dogma. That is why I'm proud to be a liberal.\n\nWhat about you?
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Cultural socialism is a term used by some mostly conservative writers to characterize the movement of some Liberal progressives away from economic socialism into areas of state social guardianship. While  our forefathers had the concept that rights were endowed by a creator or we innate you had them by being born \nCultural Socialism implies that rights are derived from Government's and societies. The implication is that you have civil rights, for example, because the government granted them to you. and is closely aligned to the concepts moral relativism  and secularism. . Ergo if the state is secular then rights granted are derived from secular source ie. Govt  or Society (Democracy). The term is more a contrivance than an accepted label.That said it does allow for some interesting debate. For instance if rights are conveyed by the will of the people then by the will of the people they can be revoked yes?These arguments come to a head in debates over things like abortion.\nFrom the right you'll hear Every humane has a right to life conveyed to him at conception not granted but innate\nFrom the left you'll hear a woman has the right to choose her own health care, has a right to privacy in reproduction (reproductive rights)\nThe discord arises when a government takes an innate right like the right to privacy and infers another right  IE reproductive rights from it. Conservatives being for the most part strict constructionist constitutionally  disagree with this philosophy implying that it is  social engineering and that no right to abortion is stated or expressed.\nMore broadly it refers the cheapening of the idea of rights as envisioned by the founders. So say an individual states I have a basic right to be nourished through this thinking then if it is a basic "Right" then it is the governments job to ensure you are nourished or I have a "right" to a Livable Wage or I have a "right" to health care. See where this leads?\nIn sum, cultural socialism generally refers to progressives inferring rights in place of the more accurate needs  to further their own political initiatives such as socialized medicine, abortion etc... As I previously stated this is label created by social conservatives to further there own ideas but does raise some valid arguments