[ProgressingAmerica]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth_Higginson

[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If Wikipedia can be believed:

The ISS which was a student organization became the LID which appealed to socialists throughout society.

Later a student group split off from LID: SLID. This ultimately became the SDS.

Meanwhile LID is still around, but parts of it combined with the Socialist Party to become SDUSA a "social democratic" organization.

Although LID did some good things like support the Solidarity movement in Poland this seems more in support of trade unions and in keeping with the American trade union tradition of strong opposition to communism.

The really interesting thing is that neoconservatives played a major role in LID and even SDUSA. This may explain why neocons are right with regard to communism, but wrong with regard to pretty much everything else.

[mjp]

It is based on the obvious fact that we are more and more surrounded by institutions, such as free schools, free text books, free libraries, free bridges, free water-supplies, free lecture courses, even free universities, which were all called socialistic when first proposed, and which so able a man as Herbert Spencer denounced as socialism to his dying day

But at what cost? Increased tyranny and decreased economic progress