progressive movements
Drives for change
Progressive movements are organized efforts to advance social, political, or economic reform, typically toward greater equality, justice, or government intervention.
The term encompasses campaigns for civil rights, labor protections, environmental regulation, and expanded democratic participation.
What counts as progressive shifts over time—yesterday's radical demands often become today's mainstream positions.
The progressive movements of the early twentieth century fought for women's suffrage and workplace safety laws.
- living wageIncome covering necessities
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- inclusionBeing made part
climate action · artistic freedom · democracy · fair trade · indigenous rights · land back · disability rights · grassroots organizing · direct action · civil rights · electoral reform · prison reform · multiculturalism · language preservation · anti-corruption · intersectionality · marriage equality · reproductive rights
progressive movementspaleoconservatism
Tradition-first, nation-focused conservatism
nativism · fascism · alt-right · neo-fascism · Trumpism
progressive movementsrevanchism
Policy seeking lost territory
conservative backlash · retrenchment · obstructionism · retrogression
progressive movementssocial conservatism
Ideology favoring established moral standards
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